Frauen, Nation und Krieg: Die Bedeutung der antinapoleonischen Kriege für die Geschlechterordnung – Geschichte, Nachwirkung und Erinnerung
Title | Frauen, Nation und Krieg: Die Bedeutung der antinapoleonischen Kriege für die Geschlechterordnung – Geschichte, Nachwirkung und Erinnerung |
Publication Type | Book Chapter |
Year of Publication | 2015 |
Authors | Hagemann, Karen |
Editor | Aschmann, Birgit, and Thomas Stamm-Kuhlmann |
Book Title | 1813 im europäischen Kontext |
Pagination | 217-240 |
Publisher | Franz Steiner Verlag |
City | Stuttgart |
Abstract | The collective memories of the Wars against Napoleon emphasized male heroism and self-sacrifice for the nation. Nineteenth-century academic and military historiography, which had a profound impact on collective memory, ignored women's support of these wars and early forms of organized female patriotism. The chapter discusses the importance of the wars of 1813-15 for the gender order of later national wars with a focus on the development in the German-speaking area. Its thesis is that the new form of mass warfare, which became characteristic of the Napoleonic Wars, also had far-reaching effects on the civilian population and could not have been successful without their broad support. It therefore first indicates the effects of mass warfare on the population and then describes the forms in which women supported the wars against Napoleon. Second, it shows how their involvement after the wars was pushed out of national memory as part of the cultural demobilization and restabilization of the gender order. And finally, it demonstrates, how with the experiences of later wars and the growing influence of a bourgeois-national women's movement, women's war support in the years of 1813-15 increasingly found recognition again, albeit primarily in the segments of the literary and political public that were assigned to women. |
URL | https://elibrary.steiner-verlag.de/book/99.105010/9783515110495 |
Translated Title | Women, Nation, and War: The Significance of the Anti-Napoleonic Wars for the Gender Order - History, Aftermath, and Memory |
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