The case for woman suffrage, economic equality, and citizenship in WWI
Preface: "Mobilizing Woman Power" in the First World
War vii
Acknowledgments xv
Prelude: The Washington, D.C., Suffrage Parade of 1913
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1. Negotiating Gender and Citizenship: Context for the First World
War 11
2. Gender and Violence: Context and Experience in the Era of the
World War 21
3. "Whether We Vote or Not -- We Are Going to Shoot": Women and
Armed Defense on the Home Front 36
4. "The Fighting, Biting, and Scratching Kind": Good Girls, Bad
Girls, and Women's Soldiering 60
5. Uncle Sam's Loyal Nieces: Women Physicians, Citizenship, and
Wartime Military Service 77
6. Helping Women Who Pay the "Rapacious Price" of War: Women's
Medical Units in France 98
7. A Base Hospital Is Not a Coney Island Dance Hall: Nurses,
Citizenship, Hostile Work Environment, and Military
Rank 116
8. "Danger Ahead for the Country": Civic Roles and Safety for the
Consumer-Civilian in Postwar America 142
Conclusion 165
Notes 177
Bibliography 209
Index 231
Kimberly Jensen is a professor of history and gender studies at Western Oregon University.
"Jensen astutely analyzes the interplay between US women's attempts
to attain professional and civic equality and overcome gender-based
violence during WWI. . . . She expertly interweaves case studies
and gender representations from women activists, popular culture,
wartime propaganda, real-life accounts, and a host of other
sources. Highly recommended."--Choice
“Not simply a tale about World War I or the women's suffrage
movement, but a story of the complicated intersection of gender,
citizenship, violence, and war in the early twentieth
century.”--H-Minerva
“Mobilizing Minerva is a useful analysis that contributes
thoughtfully to the history of women, gender, war, and antiviolence
activism and joins a growing body of literature that places the
suffrage campaign within a much wider context of women’s
activism.”--Oregon Historical Quarterly
“Kimberly Jensen’s study of women in the First World War is a
valuable contribution to the expanding scholarship on the American
social and military history of that conflict.”--Military
History
"A fascinating and well-researched book on the mobilization of
American women during the First World War."--Minerva Journal of
Women and War
"As we struggle to understand the roots of violence against women
and also to train women in the military and police forces to
exercise violence in the name of the state, Kimberly Jensen's
timely book helps us place important challenges in historical
context. Jensen's imaginative research reveals many unappreciated
dimensions of the First World War; her wise analysis deepens our
understanding of civilian and military culture. An important
book."--Linda K. Kerber, author of No Constitutional Right to Be
Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship
"The archives and popular printed magazines and papers that Jensen
has tracked down are full of juicy insight into both the
anti-suffrage and suffrage debates. She does a superb job of
showing the reader how America's entrance into WWI affected those
suffrage debates and discourses."--Cynthia Enloe, author of
Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International
Politics and Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing
Women's Lives
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