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Title The Oxford handbook of gender, war and the Western World since 1600 / edited by Karen Hagemann, Stefan Dudink, and Sonya O. Rose
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 819 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Oxford handbooks
Oxford handbooks.
Contents Introduction: Gender and the history of war : the development of the research. / Karen Hagemann -- Part I: From the Thirty Years' War and colonial conquest to the wars of revolution and independence. War and gender : from the Thirty Years' War and colonial conquest to the wars of revolution and independence / Stefan Dudink and Karen Hagemann ; Wars, states, and gender in early modern European warfare, 1600s-1780s / Peter H. Wilson ; War, culture, and gender in colonial and revolutionary North America / Serena Zabin ; War, gender, and society in late colonial and revolutionary Spanish America / Catherine Davies ; Gender, slavery, war, and violence in and beyond the age of revolutions / Elizabeth Colwill ; Society, mass warfare, and gender in Europe during and after the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars / Alan Forrest ; History and memory of army women and female soldiers, 1770s-1870s / Thomas Cardoza and Karen Hagemann ; Citizenship, mass mobilization, and masculinity in a transatlantic perspective, 1770s-1870s / Stefan Dudink -- Part II: Wars of nations and empires. War and gender : nineteenth-century wars of nations and empires, an overview / Stefan Dudink, Karen Hagemann, and Mischa Honeck ; War mobilization, gender, and military culture in nineteenth-century western societies / Robert A. Nye ; Gender and the wars of nation-building and nation-keeping in the Americas, 1830s-1870s / Amy S. Greenberg ; Imperial conquest, violent encounters, and changing gender relations in colonial warfare, 1830s-1910s / Angela Woollacott ; The "White Man," race, and imperial war during the long nineteenth century / Marilyn Lake ; Changing modes of warfare and the gendering of military medical care, 1850s-1920s / Jean H. Quataert -- Part III: The age of the world wars. War and gender : the age of the world wars and its aftermath : an overview / Karen Hagemann and Sonya O. Rose ; Gendered war mobilization, culture, and music in the age of world wars / Annegret Fauser ; Total warfare, gender, and the "home front" in Europe during the first and second world wars / Susan R. Grayzel ; Citizenship and gender on the American and Canadian home fronts during the first and second world wars / Kimberly Jensen ; History and memory of female military service in the age of world wars / Karen Hagemann ; States, military masculinities, and combat in the age of world wars / Thomas Kühne ; Colonial soldiers, race, and military masculinities during and beyond World Wars I and II / Richard Smith ; Sexuality, sexual violence, and the military in the age of the world wars / Regina Mühlhäuser ; Gender, peace, and the new politics of humanitarianism in the first half of the twentieth century / Glenda Sluga ; Gender, demobilization, and the reordering of societies after the first and second world wars / Karen Hagemann ; Gendering the memories of war and Holocaust in Europe and the United States / Frank Biess -- Part IV: From the global Cold War to the conflicts of the post-Cold War era. War and gender : from the global cold war to the conflicts of the post-Cold War era, an overview / Karen Hagemann and Sonya O. Rose ; Gender, the wars of decolonization, and the decline of empires after 1945 / Raphaëlle Branche ; Post-1945 western militaries, female soldiers, and gay and lesbian rights / Karen Hagemann and D'Ann Campbell ; Conceptualizing sexual violence in post-Cold war global conflicts / Dubravka Zarkov ; The United Nations, gendered human rights, and peacekeeping since 1945 / Sandra Whitworth ; Gender, wars of globalization, and humanitarian interventions since the end of the Cold War / Kristen P. Williams
Summary To date, war history has focused predominantly on the efforts of and impact of war on male participants. However, this limited focus disregards the complexity of gendered experiences with war and the military. The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600 investigates how conceptions of gender have contributed to the shaping of military culture, examining the varied ideals and practices that have socially differentiated men and women's wartime experiences. Covering the major periods in warfare since the seventeenth century, The Handbook explores cultural representations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Women and war -- History
War -- Sex differences
War and society -- History
War and society
Women and war
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Hagemann, Karen, editor.
Dudink, Stefan, editor.
Rose, Sonya O., editor.
ISBN 9780197513125
0197513123
9780199948727
0199948720
9780199983704
0199983704