
Making Peace
The Reconstruction of Gender in Interwar Britain
Susan Kingsley Kent(Author)
Princeton University Press
Published on 5. December 1993
Book
Hardback
204 pages
978-0-691-03140-8 (ISBN)
Description
This study aims to provide a fresh context for understanding gender relations in interwar Britain, seeing in the emergence of a powerful ideology of motherhood and a re-emphasis on separate spheres for men and women a corollary to the political and economic restructuring designed to re-establish social order after World War I. The War had often been justified to the British public by means of images that portrayed women as hostile or frightening - or as victims of sexual assault, as in the Belgian atrocity stories. These sexualized interpretations of war then shaped postwar understandings of gender, as psychiatrists, psychologists, and sexologists drew on metaphors of war to talk about relationships between men and women, likening any conflict between the sexes to the terrible chaos of the war years. Drawing on materials from posters to popular songs, from government reports to journalistic accounts, from memoirs and novels to diaries and letters, "Making Peace" is an analysis of how gendered and sexualized depictions of wartime experiences compelled many Britons to seek in traditional gender arrangements the key to postwar order and security.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Jersey
United States
Target group
College/higher education
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Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 197 mm
Weight
510 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-691-03140-8 (9780691031408)
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Susan Kingsley Kent is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is also the author of Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914 (Princeton).