Reconstructing patriarchy after the Great War : women, gender, and postwar reconciliation between nations / Erika Kuhlman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kuhlman, Erika A., 1961-

Series:

Palgrave Macmillan transnational history series

Palgrave Macmillan series in transnational history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and peace--Germany--History--20th century.

Women and peace.

Women and peace--United States--History--20th century.

World War, 1914-1918--Women--Germany.

World War, 1914-1918.

Reconciliation--Political aspects--Germany--History--20th century.

Reconciliation.

Reconciliation--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Reconciliation--Political aspects.

History.

United States--Relations--Germany.

United States.

Relations.

Germany.

Germany--Relations--United States.

Physical Description:

xiv, 246 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Summary:

Reconstructing Patriarchy after the Great War is the first book to study women's historical involvement in postwar reconciliation. It examines the international marriages that took place during the occupation of the German Rhineland as well as the "Rhineland Horror" campaign that implicated French African soldiers in sullying German women's honor. It also explores how Americans and Germans reconciled their home fronts to peacetime by returning women to traditional female labor while simultaneously honoring them as mothers. In the final analysis, author Erika Kuhlman reveals how two systems of power and privilege-patriarchy and international relations-operated simultaneously to ensure male dominance and the victors' advantage in the postwar world.

Contents:

Chapter 1 American Doughboys and German Frauleins: Securing Patriarchy and Privilege in the Occupied Rhineland 11

Chapter 2 Imperialism and Postwar Reconciliation: The International and Transnational "Rhineland Horror" Campaign 39

Chapter 3 "What to do with the Germans?": American Exceptionalism and German-American Reconciliation 71

Chapter 4 Women Activists in the Postwar World: Gender, Reconciliation, and Humanitarian Aid 105

Chapter 5 Binding up "Bitter Wounds": Gender, Nationalism, and Reconciliation on the Home Front in Germany and in the United States 139.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-236) and index.

ISBN:

0230602819

9780230602816

OCLC:

181079208

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