HIEU 140 Chapter 1-2: Women in 20th Century Europe
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Hieu 140 textbook notes women in 20th century europe, chapters 1 & 2. Chapter 1: women and the first world war, 1914-1918. "willing to do anything": women at the front. "the mother-side of humanity": women and pacifism: women"s motherly nature predisposed them to pacifism. International committee for a permanent peace/women"s international league for peace and. Freedom: 1915, after meeting of pacifist women: ways to prevent war by resolving disputes peacefully. Influenced fourteen points: when returning home, set up local branches, working force peace their organizational work and journalism. Socialists held own peace conference in 1915, not wanting to associate themselves with mc feminists. For most women, however, nationality transcended gender when it came to loyalty: wanted to share men"s lot rather than asserting separate identity. "it is jolly worth while": women on the home front: war increased female unemployment, conversion of factories to military production eliminated civilian jobs, women"s organizations provided services for disrupted households.
