Aftermaths of War

Ingrid Sharp MA (1989) in German and Philosophy, University of Oxford, is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Leeds and Head of the Department of German, Russian and Slavonic Studies. She has published on aspects of the women's movement in Germany in international perspective and is co-editor with Alison Fell of The Women’s Movement in Wartime: International Perspectives, 1914-1919 (Palgrave April 2007).Matthew Stibbe, D.Phil (1997) in History, University of Sussex, is Reader in History at Sheffield Hallam University. He has published widely in the field of First World War studies and twentieth-century Germany, including Germany, 1914-1933: Politics, Society and Culture (Pearson, 2010).

• CONTENTSAcknowledgements ixList of Abbreviations xiList of Illustrations xvList of Contributors xviiIntroduction: Women’s Movements and Female Activists in the Aftermath of War: International Perspectives 1918-1923Ingrid Sharp and Matthew Stibbe 1PART ONECOMMEMORATION, REMEMBERING,REMOBILISATIONThe aftermaths of defeat: the fallen, the catastrophe, and the public response of women to the end of the First World War in BulgariaNikolai Vukov 29The women’s suffrage campaign in Italy in 1919 and Voce nuova (“New Voice”): Corporatism, nationalism and the struggle for political rightsEmma Schiavon 49Raps across the knuckles: The extension of war culture by radical nationalist women journalists in post-1918 GermanyChristiane Streubel 69The Rhineland Horror campaign and the aftermath of warErika Kuhlman 89PART TWOTHE RENEGOTIATION OF GENDER ROLESFrom “Free Love” to Married Love: Gender politics, Marie Stopes, and middlebrow fiction by women in the early nineteen twentiesAnn Rea 113The disappearing surplus: the spinster in the post-war debate in Weimar Germany, 1918-1920Ingrid Sharp 135After the vote was won. The fate of the women’s suffrage movement in Russia after the October Revolution: individuals, ideas and deedsOlga Shnyrova 159Women activists in Albania following independence and World War IFatmira Musaj and Beryl Nicholson 179PART THREEWOMEN’S SUFFRAGE AND POLITICAL RIGHTSA bitter-sweet victory: Feminisms in France (1918-1923)Christine Bard 199Sisters and Comrades. Women’s movements and the “Austrian Revolution”: Gender in insurrection, the Rate movement, parties and parliamentGabriella Hauch 221Who represents Hungarian women? The demise of the liberal bourgeois women’s rights movement and the rise of the rightwing women’s movement in the aftermath of World War IJudith Szapor 245Soldiers, members of parliament, social activists: the Polish women’s movement after World War ISylwia Kuźma-Markowska 265Political and public aspects of the activity of the Lithuanian women’s movement, 1918-1923Virginija Jurėnienė 287PART FOURRECONSTRUCTING COMMUNITIES/VISIONS OF PEACEDiverse constructions: Feminist and conservative women’s movements and their contribution to the (re-)construction of gender relations in Hungary after the First World WarJudit Acsady 309Elsa Brandstrom and the reintegration of returning prisoners of war and their families in post-war Germany and Austria Matthew Stibbe 333“We stand on the threshold of a new age”: Alice Masarykova, the Czechoslovak Red Cross, and the building of a new EuropeBruce R. Berglund 355“Having Seen Enough”: Eleanor Franklin Egan and the journalism of Great War displacementDavid Hudson 375Britain in the Balkans: the response of the Scottish Women’s Hospital UnitsJill Liddington 395Index 419