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Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
Home/Front: The Military, Violence and Gender Relations in the Age of the World Wars......Page 14
1 Ready for War?: Conceptions of Military Manliness in the Prusso-German Officer Corps before the First World War......Page 56
2 German Comrades – Slavic Whores: Gender Images in the German Soldier Newspapers of the First World War......Page 82
3 Motherly Heroines and Adventurous Girls: Red Cross Nurses and Women Army Auxiliaries in the First World War......Page 100
4 Homefront: Food, Politics and Women’s Everyday Life during the First World War......Page 128
5 Enemy Images: Race and Gender Stereotypes in the Discussion on Colonial Troops. A Franco-German Comparison, 1914–1923......Page 152
6 Gender Wars: The First World War and the Construction of Gender Relations in the Weimar Republic......Page 172
7 Body Damage: War Disability and Constructions of Masculinity in Weimar Germany......Page 194
8 Flying and Killing: Military Masculinity in German Pilot Literature, 1914–1939......Page 218
9 Comradeship: Gender Confusion and Gender Order in the German Military, 1918–1945......Page 246
10 Rape: The Military Trials of Sexual Crimes Committed by Soldiers in the Wehrmacht, 1939–1944......Page 268
11 Remembering and Repressing: German Women’s Recollections of the ‘Ethnic Struggle’ in Occupied Poland during the Second World War......Page 288
12 Erotic Fraternization: The Legend of German Women’s Quick Surrender......Page 310
13 Cold War Communities: Women’s Peace Politics in Postwar West Germany, 1945–1952......Page 324
14 Men of Reconstruction – The Reconstruction of Men: Returning POWs in East and West Germany, 1945–1955......Page 348
A Selected Bibliography: The Military, War and Gender in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Germany......Page 372
Notes on Contributors......Page 396
C......Page 400
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K......Page 402
P......Page 403
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W......Page 405
Z......Page 406