Homefront: Food, Politics and Women's Everyday Life during the First World War
Title | Homefront: Food, Politics and Women's Everyday Life during the First World War |
Publication Type | Book Chapter |
Year of Publication | 2002 |
Authors | Davis, Belinda J. |
Editor | Hagemann, Karen, and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum |
Book Title | Home/Front: The Military, War, and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany |
Pagination | 115-138 |
Publisher | Berg |
City | Oxford and New York |
Abstract | In the book chapter "Homefront: Food, Politics and Women's Everyday Life during the First World War," in the edited volume Home/Front: The Military, War, and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany the author explores how women experienced transformations in their self-perception and the demands placed upon them by the state in the name of national defense. The chapter argues that women helped redefine German identity through increasing reliance on the state after 1914 for their basic welfare and food for their families. Women did not remain passive recipients, however. Embued with a new sense of power and participation, women were now more likely to take on the task of chastising any regime that failed in the role of provider. Here Davis sees the origins of direct political action in the streets, mob violence, and the virulent friend/enemy dichotomies that persisted through the Weimar and National Socialist eras. |
URL | https://www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com/encyclopedia?docid=b-9781350048379 |
Original Publication | Heimat-Front: Militär und Geschlechterverhältnisse im Zeitalter der Weltkriege |
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