Mobilizing Minerva
American Women in the First World War
Kimberly Jensen(Author)
University of Illinois Press
Published on 1. January 2008
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-0-252-03237-0 (ISBN)
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Description
American women did more than pursue roles as soldiers, doctors, and nurses during World War I. Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War reveals women\u2019s motivations for fighting for full citizenship rights both on and off the battlefield. The war provided chances for women to participate in the military, but also in other male-dominated career paths. Intense discussions of rape, methods of protecting women, and proper gender roles abound as Kimberly Jensen draws from rich case studies to show how female thinkers and activists wove wartime choices into long-standing debates about woman suffrage and economic parity. The war created new urgency in these debates, and Jensen forcefully presents the case of women participants and activists: women\u2019s involvement in the obligation of citizens to defend the state validated their right of full female citizenship.
Reviews / Votes
"Jensen astutely analyzes the interplay between US women's attempts to attain professional and civic equality and overcome gender-based violence during WWI... She expertly interweaves case studies and gender representations from women activists, popular culture, wartime propaganda, real-life accounts, and a host of other sources. Highly recommended."--Choice "Not simply a tale about World War I or the women's suffrage movement, but a story of the complicated intersection of gender, citizenship, violence, and war in the early twentieth century."--H-Minerva "Mobilizing Minerva is a useful analysis that contributes thoughtfully to the history of women, gender, war, and antiviolence activism and joins a growing body of literature that places the suffrage campaign within a much wider context of women's activism."--Oregon Historical Quarterly "Kimberly Jensen's study of women in the First World War is a valuable contribution to the expanding scholarship on the American social and military history of that conflict."--Military HistoryMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
14 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-252-03237-0 (9780252032370)
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Kimberly Jensen is professor of history and gender studies at Western Oregon University.