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Author:   Ingrid Sharp ,  Matthew Stibbe
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.270kg
ISBN:  

9780367891268

ISBN 10:   0367891263
Pages:   138
Publication Date:   12 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction: Women’s International Activism during the Inter-War Period, 1919–1939 1. Peace at any Price: the Visit of Nazi Women’s Leader Gertrud Scholtz-Klink to London in March 1939 and the Response of British Women Activists 2. ‘A woman so curiously fear-free and venturesome’: Eleanor Franklin Egan reporting the Great Russian Famine, 1922 3. War, Transnationalism and Medical Women’s Activism: the Medical Women’s International Association and the Women’s Foundation for Health in the aftermath of the First World War 4. Catholic Women, International Engagement and the Battle for Suffrage in Interwar France: the case of the Action Sociale de la Femme and the Union Nationale pour le Vote des Femmes 5. ‘An Unbroken Family’? Gertrud Bäumer and the German Women’s Movement’s Return to International Work in the 1920s 6. Out of her Time? Rosika Schwimmer’s Transnational Activism after the First World War 7. From International to National Engagement and Back: the YWCA’s communicative techniques of Americanisation in the aftermath of World War I

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Ingrid Sharp is Professor of German Cultural and Gender History in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds, UK. Her research interests are in the area of gender representation and cultural history in Germany, and she is currently working on a study of German resistance to the First World War. Matthew Stibbe is Professor of Modern European History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He has written and co-edited books on a variety of themes in twentieth-century German, Austrian and European history, and is currently working on a global study of civilian internment during the First World War.

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