Sharp, IE (2017) ‘An unbroken family’? Gertrud Bäumer and the German Women’s movement’s return to international work in the 1920s. Women's History Review, 26 (2). pp. 245-261. ISSN 0961-2025
Abstract
At the end of the First World War, the international women’s organisations presented a unified face to the world, claiming to have emerged from the conflict as an ‘unbroken family’. However, the return to internationalism was not as straightforward as this suggests and there were many barriers to re-establishing the links that had been interrupted by the conflict. Reintegration into the international community was particularly challenging for women in defeated nations, especially for those who had engaged in patriotic war work and identified strongly with the bitter fate of their nation. By exploring the difficult return of the German women’s leader, Gertrud Bäumer, to working with the international organisations, this article will highlight some of the obstacles and ambiguities they faced in their project of restoring the ‘imagined community’ of international women activists in the aftermath of a brutal conflict that had established war and peace as matters of vital feminist concern.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Women's History Review on 26 September 2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09612025.2016.1181337 |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > German (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 26 May 2016 14:01 |
Last Modified: | 26 Mar 2018 00:38 |
Published Version: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2016.1181337 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/09612025.2016.1181337 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:100184 |