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An international cast of eminent scholars examine how women´s movements and individual female activists helped to mould, interpret and communicate key developments in post First World War Europe.

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Women Activists between War and Peace employs a comparative approach in exploring women´s political and social activism across the European continent in the years that followed the First World War. It brings together leading scholars in the field to discuss the contribution of women´s movements in, and individual female activists from, Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Russia and the United States.
The book contains an introduction that helpfully outlines key concepts and broader, European-wide issues and concerns, such as peace, democracy and the role of the national and international in constructing the new, post-war political order. It then proceeds to examine the nature of women´s activism through the prism of five pivotal topics:
Suffrage and nationalism
Pacifism and internationalism
Revolution and socialism
Journalism and print media
War and the body
A timeline and illustrations are also included in the book, along with a useful guide to further reading. This is a vitally important text for all students of women´s history, twentieth-century Europe and the legacy of the First World War.

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List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Time-Line: Women Activists between War and Peace, 1918-1923
Introduction: Women Activists between War and Peace: Europe, 1918-1923
Ingrid Sharp and Matthew Stibbe
1. Suffrage and Nationalism in Comparative Perspective: Britain, Hungary, Finland and the Transnational Experience of Rosika Schwimmer
Lead authors: Julie V. Gottlieb and Judith Szapor, with Tiina Lintunen (on Finland) and Dagmar Wernitznig (on Rosika Schwimmer)
2. Internationalism, Pacifism, Transnationalism: Women´s Movements and the Building of a Sustainable Peace in the Post-War World
Lead author: Ingrid Sharp, with Judit Acsády (on Hungary) and Nikolai Vukov (on Bulgaria)
3. Women and Socialist Revolution, 1917-1923
Lead author: Matthew Stibbe (on Germany), with Olga Shnyrova (on Russia) and Veronika Helfert (on Austria)
4. Mediating the National and the International: Women, Journalism and Hungary in the Aftermath of the First World War
Lead authors: Maria DiCenzo, Judit Acsády, David Hudson and Balázs Sipos
5. Women´s Movements, War and the Body
Lead authors: Alison S. Fell and Susan R. Grayzel
Further Reading

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