Women’s Pacifism during the First World War

  • Annamaria Lamarra Unjiversità di Napoli Federico II
Keywords: pacifism, internationalism, history, autobiography

Abstract

Women’s pacifism in the course of the First World War is a chapter of collective memory that has never become a shared memory.The idea that war is “men’s business, not ladies”, is largely responsible for it. Paul Fussel summarises this attitude: correctly or not, as he writes in The Great War and Modern Memory, the current idea of the Great War derives primarily from images of the trenches in France and Belgium. Given this, it is not something unusual that outstanding events such as The Hague International Congress of Women (April-May 2015) is still a neglected chapter of women’s history. This paper focuses on the event and other significant experiences in women’s partecipation in the Great War.

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Author Biography

Annamaria Lamarra, Unjiversità di Napoli Federico II
Annamaria Lamarra is professor of English Literature at the University of Naples Federico II. Her research fields include: gender studies, modernism, Restoration literature. Her publications include Aphra Behn, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History (2008. Oxford: Oxford University Press); L’invenzione del romanzo. Il caso Aphra Behn (2012. Napoli: Filema); Jessie White Mario, Louise Colet and The Italian Risorgimento, in A. Lamarra, E. Federici (eds.), Nations, Traditions and Cross-Cultural Identities (2010. Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang).
Published
2016-03-15
How to Cite
LamarraA. (2016). Women’s Pacifism during the First World War. La Camera Blu, (13). https://doi.org/10.6092/1827-9198/3886