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Making Peace: The Reconstruction of Gender in Interwar Britain
Hardcover
Series: Princeton Legacy Library, Book 5275
General Gender StudiesBritish History
ISBN13: 9780691656793
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Jan 15 2019
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.50 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
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.
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.
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