Frauen, Nation und Krieg: Die Bedeutung der antinapoleonischen Kriege für die Geschlechterordnung – Geschichte, Nachwirkung und Erinnerung

TitleFrauen, Nation und Krieg: Die Bedeutung der antinapoleonischen Kriege für die Geschlechterordnung – Geschichte, Nachwirkung und Erinnerung
Publication TypeBook Chapter
Year of Publication2015
AuthorsHagemann, Karen
EditorAschmann, Birgit, and Thomas Stamm-Kuhlmann
Book Title1813 im europäischen Kontext
Pagination217-240
PublisherFranz Steiner Verlag
CityStuttgart
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.

URLhttps://elibrary.steiner-verlag.de/book/99.105010/9783515110495
Translated TitleWomen, Nation, and War: The Significance of the Anti-Napoleonic Wars for the Gender Order - History, Aftermath, and Memory
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