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Article Excerpt
(Theme Issue: Gender and War in Europe c. 1918-1949), Vol. 10, Part 3, November 2001.
Gender and War in Europe c. 1918-1949
"Certain things go inevitably with war and are war. The main thing is fighting, winning, killing and being killed, being masculine and aggressive and abnormally vigorous, violent and physical." (p. 346) Thus Mary Vincent, one of the editors of this journal, begins her introduction to a special theme issue devoted to gender and war in the 20th Century. This anonymous comment by a member of Britain's Mass Observation team, April 1940, demonstrates the degree to which theorists and the general public perceived war as a masculine domain. So accordingly, peace must be feminine. But it is quite clear that the path of patriotic service appealed to more women that...
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