This comparative, interdisciplinary book explores the responses of the women's movement to World War I in all of the major belligerent nations. The contributors cover key topics including women's relationship with the state, women's war service, mothers in wartime, suffrage, peace and the aftermath of war, and women's guilt and responsibility.

Introduction: The women's movement and the first world war /Alison S. Fell and Ingrid Sharp -- 'Indian sisters! Send your husbands, brothers, sons' : India, women and the first world war / Santanu Das -- Martial spirit and mobilisation myths : bourgeois women and the 'ideas of 1914' in Germany / Claudia Siebrecht -- 'French women do not wish to talk about peace' : Julie Siegfried and the response of the Conseil National des Femmes Françaises to the first world war / Alison S. Fell -- Blaming the women : women's 'responsibility' for the first world war / Ingrid Sharp -- The creation of an icon in defence of Hélène Brion : pacifists and feminists in the French minority media / Joanna Shearer -- In a different voice : responses of Hungarian feminism to the first world war / Judit Acsády -- Feminism and suffrage in Russia : women, war and revolution, 1914-1917 / Olga Shnyrova -- The Pankhursts and the Great War / June Purvis -- 'The woman who dared' : Major Mabel St. Clair Stobart / Angela K. Smith -- Esther Pohl Lovejoy, M.D., the first world war, and a feminist critique of wartime violence / Kimberly Jensen -- Elisabeth Rotten and the 'Auskunfts- und Hilfsstelle für Deutsche im Ausland und Auslñder in Deutschland', 1914-1919 / Matthew Stibbe -- Transforming Utopia : the 'League for the Protection of Mothers and Sexual Reform' in the first world war / Peter Davies -- The 'Women's International League for Peace and Freedom' and reconciliation after the Great War / Erika Kuhlman -- Sacrificial rituals and wounded hearts : the uses of Christian symbolism in French and German women's responses to the first world war / Catherine O'Brien. Introduction: The women's movement and the first world war / Alison S. Fell and Ingrid Sharp -- 'Indian sisters! Send your husbands, brothers, sons' : India, women and the first world war / Santanu Das -- Martial spirit and mobilisation myths : bourgeois women and the 'ideas of 1914' in Germany / Claudia Siebrecht -- 'French women do not wish to talk about peace' : Julie Siegfried and the response of the Conseil National des Femmes Françaises to the first world war / Alison S. Fell -- Blaming the women : women's 'responsibility' for the first world war / Ingrid Sharp -- The creation of an icon in defence of Hélène Brion : pacifists and feminists in the French minority media / Joanna Shearer -- In a different voice : responses of Hungarian feminism to the first world war / Judit Acsády -- Feminism and suffrage in Russia : women, war and revolution, 1914-1917 / Olga Shnyrova -- The Pankhursts and the Great War / June Purvis -- 'The woman who dared' : Major Mabel St. Clair Stobart / Angela K. Smith -- Esther Pohl Lovejoy, M.D., the first world war, and a feminist critique of wartime violence / Kimberly Jensen -- Elisabeth Rotten and the 'Auskunfts- und Hilfsstelle für Deutsche im Ausland und Ausländer in Deutschland', 1914-1919 / Matthew Stibbe -- Transforming Utopia : the 'League for the Protection of Mothers and Sexual Reform' in the first world war / Peter Davies -- The 'Women's International League for Peace and Freedom' and reconciliation after the Great War / Erika Kuhlman -- Sacrificial rituals and wounded hearts : the uses of Christian symbolism in French and German women's responses to the first world war / Catherine O'Brien.