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Zusatztext This collection fills significant gaps in our understanding of the ways in which European socialism and revolution developed during and after World War I! adding the important roles played by women as well as gendered analysis of not only their actions but of the larger movements with which they were associated. A welcome contribution! Informationen zum Autor Ingrid Sharp is Professor of German Cultural and Gender History at the University of Leeds, UK. She is the editor of The Women's Movement in Wartime (co-edited with Alison Fell, 2007) and of Aftermaths of War (2011) and Women Activists between War and Peace (2017), both co-edited with Matthew Stibbe. Matthew Stibbe is Professor of Modern European History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He is the author of several books, including Germany, 1914-1933: Politics, Society and Culture (2010), and the editor of several volumes of essays on 20th-century European themes, including Aftermaths of War (2011) and Women Activists between War and Peace (2017), both co-edited with Ingrid Sharp. Corinne Painter is Lecturer in German and Intercultural Studies at University of Leeds, UK. She is the author of Writing Lives (2019). Vorwort An international cast of leading academics explore the role played by women socialists' anti-war protests in political and social revolutionary upheavals from 1914 to 1921. Zusammenfassung Socialist Women and the Great War: Protest, Revolution and Commemoration, an open access book, is the first transnational study of left-wing women and socialist revolution during the First World War and its aftermath. Through a discussion of the key themes related to women and revolution, such as anti-militarism and violence, democracy and citizenship, and experience and life-writing, this book sheds new and necessary light on the everyday lives of socialist women in the early 20th century. The participants of the 1918-1919 revolutions in Europe, and the accompanying outbreaks of social unrest elsewhere in the world, have typically been portrayed as war-weary soldiers and suited committee delegates—in other words, as men. Exceptions like Rosa Luxemburg exist, but ordinary women are often cast as passive recipients of the vote. This is not true; rather, women were pivotal actors in the making, imagining, and remembering of the social and political upheavals of this time. From wartime strikes, to revolutionary violence, to issues of suffrage, this book reveals how women constructed their own revolutionary selves in order to bring about lasting social change and provides a fresh comparative approach to women's socialist activism. As such, this is a vitally important resource for all postgraduates and advanced undergraduates interested in gender studies, international relations, and the history and legacy of World War I. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollection.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsGlossary and List of AbbreviationsNotes on Contributors1. Socialist Women and the Great War, 1914-1921: Protest, Revolution and Commemoration, Matthew Stibbe (Sheffield Hallam University, UK), Ingrid Sharp (University of Leeds, UK), Clotilde Faas (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland), Veronika Helfert (Central European University, Austria/Hungary), Mary McAuliffe (University College Dublin, Ireland), and Corinne Painter (University of Leeds, UK) 2. Socialist Women and ‘Urban Space’: Protest, Strikes and Anti-Militarism, 1914-1918, Matthew Stibbe (Sheffield Hallam University, UK), Katharina Hermann (University of Bern, Switzerland), Anna Hammerin (Independent Scholar, Sweden/UK) and Ali Ronan (Independent Scholar, UK) 3. Socialist Women and Revolutionary Violence, 1918-1921, ...
