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Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials - How American Women Commemorated the Great War, 1917-1945 (Hardcover)
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Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials - How American Women Commemorated the Great War, 1917-1945 (Hardcover)
Series: War, Memory, and Culture
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Investigates the ground-breaking role American women played in
commemorating those who served and sacrificed in World War I In
Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials: How American Women
Commemorated the Great War, 1917-1945 Allison S. Finkelstein argues
that American women activists considered their own community
service and veteran advocacy to be forms of commemoration just as
significant and effective as other, more traditional forms of
commemoration such as memorials. Finkelstein employs the term
'veteranism' to describe these women's overarching philosophy that
supporting, aiding, and caring for those who serve needed to be a
chief concern of American citizens, civic groups, and the
government in the war's aftermath. However, these women did not
express their views solely through their support for veterans of a
military service narrowly defined as a group predominantly composed
of men and just a few women. Rather, they defined anyone who served
or sacrificed during the war, including women like themselves, as
veterans. These women veteranists believed that memorialization
projects that centered on the people who served and sacrificed was
the most appropriate type of postwar commemoration. They
passionately advocated for memorials that could help living
veterans and the families of deceased service members at a time
when postwar monument construction surged at home and abroad.
Finkelstein argues that by rejecting or adapting traditional
monuments or by embracing aspects of the living memorial building
movement, female veteranists placed the plight of all veterans at
the center of their commemoration efforts. Their projects included
diverse acts of service and advocacy on behalf of people they
considered veterans and their families as they pushed to infuse
American memorial traditions with their philosophy. In doing so,
these women pioneered a relatively new form of commemoration that
impacted American practices of remembrance, encouraging Americans
to rethink their approach and provided new definitions of what
constitutes a memorial. In the process, they shifted the course of
American practices, even though their memorialization methods did
not achieve the widespread acceptance they had hoped it would.
Meticulously researched, Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials
utilizes little-studied sources and reinterprets more familiar
ones. In addition to the words and records of the women themselves,
Finkelstein analyzes cultural landscapes and ephemeral projects to
reconstruct the evidence of their influence. Readers will come away
with a better understanding of how American women supported the
military from outside its ranks before they could fully serve from
within, principally through action-based methods of commemoration
that remain all the more relevant today.
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