Motherly Heroines and Adventurous Girls: Red Cross Nurses and Women Army Auxiliaries in the First World War
Title | Motherly Heroines and Adventurous Girls: Red Cross Nurses and Women Army Auxiliaries in the First World War |
Publication Type | Book Chapter |
Year of Publication | 2002 |
Authors | Schönberger, Bianca |
Editor | Hagemann, Karen, and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum |
Book Title | Home/Front: The Military, War, and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany |
Pagination | 87-113 |
Publisher | Berg |
City | Oxford and New York |
Abstract | In her essay "Motherly Heroines and Adventurous Girls: Red Cross Nurses and Women Army Auxiliaries in the First World War" in the edited volume Home/Front: The Military, War, and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany author Bianca Schoenberger illustrates women's growing sense of power and participation by documenting the willingness and eagerness of middle-class women to serve at the front. Nursing and auxiliary work gave these women significant room during the war to transgress traditional gender norms. However, the preservation of traditional norms within gendered imagery that sanctified the motherly, caring nurse and stigmatized as unhealthy the army auxiliary worker presaged the attempt to control the memory of war to promote traditional gender norms in the post-war era. |
URL | https://www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com/encyclopedia?docid=b-9781350048379 |
Original Publication | Heimat-Front: Militär und Geschlechterverhältnisse im Zeitalter der Weltkriege |
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