Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-236) and index.
Contents:
American doughboys and German Fräuleins: securing patriarchy and privilege in the occupied Rhineland -- Imperialism and postwar reconciliation: the international and transnational "Rhineland horror" campaign -- "What to do with the Germans?": American exceptionalism and German-American reconciliation -- Women activists in the postwar world: gender, reconciliation, and humanitarian aid -- Binding up "bitter wounds": gender, nationalism, and reconciliation on the home front in Germany and in the United States.
Summary:
"Reconstructing Patriarchy after the Great War is the first book to study women's historical involvement in postwar reconciliation. It examines the international marriages that took place during the occupation of the German Rhineland as well as the "Rhineland Horror" campaign that implicated French African soldiers in sullying German women's honor. It also explores how Americans and Germans reconciled their home fronts to peacetime by returning women to traditional female labor while simultaneously honoring them as mothers. In the final analysis, author Erika Kuhlman reveals how two systems of power and privilege - patriarchy and international relations - operated simultaneously to ensure male dominance and the victors' advantage in the postwar world."--BOOK JACKET.
Series:
Palgrave Macmillan series in transnational history
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