HIS 2342 Lecture Notes - Economic Capital, Social Capital, Bourgeoisie
20 Mar 2014
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What it meant for european societies to have a loss of generation of young men. After wwi most feminists were fighting for women rights to vote. They did in some but not all european countries. In many cases there were restrictions based on property or age status. The natural result did not take place the way they might have wanted. Historians argue that gender is one of the prime spaces how europeans express their view of how the war changed the world. These changes were visible throughout elite cultures. We had three discerning images across europe in different cultural realms: modern woman = new world, mother = old world, single woman = combination of these two figures. The mother figure like the soldier is a woman that has sacrificed her children and husband and her traditional role because she now works outside of her home. The figure of the mother is a figure of what has been lost.
