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Making Peace - The Reconstruction of Gender in Interwar Britain (Hardcover)
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Making Peace - The Reconstruction of Gender in Interwar Britain (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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Making Peace provides a fresh context for understanding gender
relations in interwar Britain, seeing in the emergence of a
powerful ideology of motherhood and a reemphasis on separate
spheres for men and women a corollary to the political and economic
restructuring designed to reestablish social order after World War
I. The war had often been explained and 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 a penetrating analysis of how gendered and
sexualized depictions of wartime expereinces compelled many Britons
to seek in traditional gender arrangements the key to postwar order
and security. In the interwar period, many feminists compromised
their earlier positions in an effort to contribute to postwar
recovery, and justified their demands-for birth control and family
endowment, for example-in conservative terms that ultimately
hampered their movement. 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).
Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the
latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
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