Fashioning Identities through Consumption: Clothes, Class, and Gender in the First World War Fictionalized Epistolary Column

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Clewell
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
And Gender ◽  
First World

Not All Quiet on the Ottoman Fronts: Neglected Perspectives on a Global War, 1914-1918

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
First World War ◽  
Memory Representation ◽  
World War ◽  
Total War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Global War ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World

The First World War was the first great catastrophe of the twentieth century, and the Ottoman Empire was part of it. The Ottoman theatre in the Great War witnessed both the demolition and re-making of the modern Middle East. This volume focuses on specific topics which touch upon concrete individual lives and discusses them within economic, demographic, gender, and artistic frameworks. The reader will encounter diverse individuals ranging from ordinary soldiers, peasants, women, orphans to artists who had to struggle for survival within the brutal conditions of a total war. The volume is composed of three parts: 1. wartime mobilization policies and their social and economic aspects; 2. demographic changes, minorities and gender in the war; 3. memory, representation and the end of the war.

Reassembling Disabled Identities: Employment, Ex-servicemen and the Poppy Factory

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 210-236
Author(s):  
Emily Bartlett
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Production Lines ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
The First World War ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Artificial Flowers ◽  
First World

Abstract This article explores popular understandings of disability, work, and gender in the context of charitable employment schemes for disabled ex-servicemen after the First World War. It offers a case study of the British Legion–funded poppy factories in Richmond and Edinburgh, which employed war-disabled men to manufacture artificial flowers from 1922 onward. In so doing, this article demonstrates that press reports and charitable publications surrounding the schemes rhetorically incorporated the factories into wider twentieth-century understandings of Taylorist/Fordist productivity and manufacturing and reimagined the sites as sprawling production lines that churned out millions of flowers per year. This discourse positioned flower making as a highly skilled, masculine occupation, and relatedly constructed war-disabled flower makers as successful, productive, and physically capable workers. As one of the most publicly visible employment schemes—which catered to the most severely disabled ex-servicemen—the factories symbolized the potential of all war-disabled men for employment and went some way to challenge widespread perceptions of disabled people as idle, dependent, and useless. Moreover, this discourse represented modern, scientific methods of manufacturing as a way to make disabled bodies efficient and useful. Charitable reports positioned Taylorist/Fordist production as a solution to the problem of mass disability and ultimately countered widespread British discontent with American manufacturing ideals.

Going Barefoot in Warsaw during the First World War

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-204
Author(s):  
Robert Blobaum
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
First World War ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
World War ◽  
Daily Press ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World

This article attempts to demonstrate how an entirely unexplored and seemingly unimportant episode, at least to grand historical narratives, can open up multiple lines of inquiry. In the course of my research on everyday life in Warsaw during the First World War, I came across an intriguing phenomenon—one might even call it a movement—of going “barefoot” (boso in Polish) during the last two years of the war. Initiated by students from Warsaw’s institutions of higher education as a means of symbolic protest against collapsed living standards, the barefoot movement would quickly spread to other groups. As it did, it generated a discourse that revealed existing cultural, political, ethnic, social, and gender-based tensions among an urban population made destitute by the exactions of the Great War. Having mined Warsaw’s daily press for any kind of reference to the barefoot movement, I have attempted in these pages to make some sense of this fleeting phenomenon by linking analysis of social and political unrest, metropolitan cultural debates, and the quotidian economic realities of wartime.

scholarly journals Demographic losses of Serbia in the first world war and their long-term consequences

2014 ◽  
Vol 59 (203) ◽  
pp. 29-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Biljana Radivojevic ◽  
Goran Penev
Keyword(s):  
Total Population ◽  
First World War ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
World War ◽  
Sex Structure ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Paris Peace Conference ◽  
And Gender ◽  
First World

Proportional to the total population, Serbia was the country with the highest number of casualties in the First World War. According to the first estimates presented at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, total Serbian casualties were 1,250,000, over 400,000 of which were military losses while the rest were civilian deaths. Besides direct losses, which include casualties in war events and deaths resulting from military operations, the Serbian population also suffered significant indirect losses originating from the reduced number of births during the war and postwar years, increased death rate after the war as a consequence of war events, and more intensive emigration. The paper analyses some of the most-quoted estimates of demographic losses (the Paris Peace Conference, Djuric, Notestein et al.), which differ in the methodology applied, the territory covered, and the obtained results. Moreover, the paper specifies the long-term demographic consequences of the First World War, primarily on the population size of Serbia and its age and gender structure. Generations that suffered the biggest losses and those whose sex structure was disrupted the most are indicated.

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