Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War - Couverture souple

Jensen, Kimberly

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0252074963 ISBN 13 : 9780252074967

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2008

Synopsis

Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War analyzes the strategies of female physicians, nurses, and women-at-arms who linked military service with the opportunity to achieve professional and civic goals. Since women armed to defend the state during war could also protect themselves, Kimberly Jensen argues, Americans began to focus on women's relationship to violence--both its wielding against women and women's uses of it. Intense discussions of rape, methods of protecting women, and proper gender roles abound as Jensen draws from rich case studies to show how female thinkers and activists wove wartime choices into long-standing debates about woman suffrage, violence against women, gender-based discrimination, and economic parity. The war created new urgency in these debates, and Jensen forcefully presents the case of women participants and activists: women's involvement in the obligation of citizens to defend the state validated their right of full female citizenship.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kimberly Jensen is a professor of history and gender studies at Western Oregon University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252074963
• ISBN 13: 9780252074967
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
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• Personne responsable: non disponible