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6 Society, Mass Warfare, and Gender in Europe during and after the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
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The International Turn The International Turn
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The Quest for Peace during World War I The Quest for Peace during World War I
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Peacemaking in 1919 and After Peacemaking in 1919 and After
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Peace in the Minds of Men during and after the 1940s Peace in the Minds of Men during and after the 1940s
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23 Gender, Peace, and the New Politics of Humanitarianism in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Get accessGlenda Sluga is a professor of international history at the University of Sydney and, since the fall 2019, a professor of international history and capitalism at the European University Institute in Florence. She has published widely on the cultural history of international relations, internationalism, the history of European nationalisms, sovereignty, identity, immigration, and gender history. In 2006, she was appointed a member of the International Scientific Committee for the History of UNESCO. Her books include, with Barbara Caine, Gendering European History: 1780–1920 (2000); The Problem of Trieste and the Italo-Yugoslav Border (2001); The Nation, Psychology, and International Politics, 1870–1919 (2006); Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism (2013); Women, Diplomacy and International Politics since 1500, edited with Carolyn James (2016); and Internationalisms: A Twentieth Century History, edited with Patricia Clavin (2017).
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Published:10 November 2020
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Abstract
This chapter examines the changing ideas of peace and their connections with the longer history of humanitarianism in the first half of the twentieth century, using gender as an analytical focus. In particular, it explores the international and internationalist contexts of the emerging peace movement and international humanitarianism and their changing character; the gender dimensions of peace-thinking and policies, especially in the context of the League of Nations and the United Nations; and the ways in which feminism was a significant influence on the development of these two international bodies, even as women were sidelined in their operations. In the first half of the twentieth century, these international, intergovernmental organizations had as their central rationale the taming of warfare. The chapter analyzes the extent to which, in each case, they contributed to the institutionalization of new gendered international norms of pacifist and humanitarian activism.
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