Table of Contents

Introduction PART I: PROPAGANDA AND THE PUBLIC MIND The Rape of Belgium and Wartime Imagination The Making of Tommy Atkins: Masculinity, Propaganda and the Triumph of Family Values Redrawing the Boundaries of the Private Sphere: Patriotic Motherhood and the Raising of Kitchener's Armies PART II: SHAMING RITUALS AND SEXUAL IDENTITY The Order of the White Feather Conscription, Conscience, and the Travails of Male Citizenship 'Reinventing Womanhood: Sufragettes and the Great War for Citizenship PART III: THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF LAW The Power of Sacrifice: 'Physical Force' and Women's Work Votes for Whom?: The Ideological Origins of the Representation of the People Bill

About the Author

Nicoletta Gullace is the Hortense Cavis Shepherd Assistant Professor at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA, where she teaches History and International Affairs. She received her Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley, USA.

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'Well-written, lively and convincing' - Bertrand Taithe, War in History