Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 363 g
Reihe: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 363 g
Reihe: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
ISBN: 978-1-108-81173-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
This is the first book-length study of the impact of the Great War on women's everyday lives in Ireland, focussing on the years of the war and its immediate aftermath. Fionnuala Walsh demonstrates how Irish women threw themselves into the war effort, mobilising in various different forms, such as nursing wounded soldiers, preparing hospital supplies and parcels of comforts, undertaking auxiliary military roles in port areas or behind the lines, and producing weapons of war. However, the war's impact was also felt beyond direct mobilisation, affecting women's household management, family relations, standard of living, and work conditions and opportunities. Drawing on extensive research in archives in Ireland and Britain, Walsh brings women's wartime experience out of the historical shadow and examines welfare and domestic life, bereavement, social morality, employment, war service, politicisation, and demobilisation to challenge ideas of emancipation and reflect upon the significant impact of the Great War on Irish society.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
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Introduction; 1. Mobilising for the war effort; 2. Family, welfare and domestic life; 3. Social morality; 4. Working lives; 5. Politicisation; 6. Demobilisation; Conclusion.
