Sharp, I (2020) Love as moral Imperative and gendered anti-war Strategy in the International Women's Movement 1914-19. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 31 (4). pp. 630-647. ISSN 0959-2296
Abstract
Some pacifist women active during and after the First World War consciously chose a rhetoric of love and shared humanity. Used to counteract the discourse of hate that dominated belligerent nations at this time, it was central to the vision of a feminist peace developed by women’s groups working to oppose the war, such as the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom [WILPF]. Using the insights gained by scholarship on the history of emotions, this analysis explores the gendered ways in which members of the WILPF performed and evoked emotions of friendship, love, and sisterhood to create, consolidate and reflect emotional communities during and in the aftermath of the First World War within and beyond their own national contexts. In the majority of belligerent nations, the majority of the women’s organisations engaged in patriotic war service and rejected WILPF members’ anti-war activism as sentimental and naive. This analysis argues that they deployed articulations of love at all stages of the war and its aftermath as both a moral imperative and a powerful, gendered strategy of resistance that was central to their claim to greater political influence at home and abroad.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an author produced version of a journal article published in Diplomacy and Statecraft. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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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) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number AHRC (Arts & Humanities Research Council) AH/P013317/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 07 Apr 2020 13:39 |
Last Modified: | 29 Jun 2022 00:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/09592296.2020.1842057 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:159165 |