Making Peace: The Reconstruction of Gender in Interwar Britain

by Susan Kingsley Kent

Book Overview

Making Peace provides a fresh context for understanding gender relations in interwar Britain, seeing in the emergence of a powerful ideology of motherhood and a reemphasis on separate spheres for men and women a corollary to the political and economic restructuring designed to reestablish social order after World War I. The war had often been explained and justified to the British public by means of images that portrayed women as hostile or frightening--or...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691655375
• ISBN13: 9780691655376
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.0" x 10.0"