Finkelstein Allison S. Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials: How American Women Commemorated the Great War, 1917-1945 9780817321017

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Автор: Finkelstein Allison S.
Название: Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials: How American Women Commemorated the Great War, 1917-1945
ISBN: 9780817321017
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

История: отдельные темы и события

Военная история

Первая мировая война

Гендерные исследования: женщины

Ветераны войны

ISBN-10: 0817321012
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 288
Вес: 0.56 кг.
Дата издания: 30.08.2021
Серия: War, memory, and culture
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 31 black & white figures
Размер: 23.11 x 14.99 x 2.54 cm
Ключевые слова: First World War,Gender studies: women,History: specific events & topics,Military history, HISTORY / Military / Veterans,HISTORY / Military / World War I
Подзаголовок: How american women commemorated the great war, 1917-1945
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Investigates the ground-breaking role American women played in commemorating those who served and sacrificed in World War I In Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials: How American Women Commemorated the Great War, 1917-1945 Allison S. Finkelstein argues that American women activists considered their own community service and veteran advocacy to be forms of commemoration just as significant and effective as other, more traditional forms of commemoration such as memorials. Finkelstein employs the term veteranism to describe these womens overarching philosophy that supporting, aiding, and caring for those who serve needed to be a chief concern of American citizens, civic groups, and the government in the wars aftermath. However, these women did not express their views solely through their support for veterans of a military service narrowly defined as a group predominantly composed of men and just a few women. Rather, they defined anyone who served or sacrificed during the war, including women like themselves, as veterans. These women veteranists believed that memorialization projects that centered on the people who served and sacrificed was the most appropriate type of postwar commemoration. They passionately advocated for memorials that could help living veterans and the families of deceased service members at a time when postwar monument construction surged at home and abroad. Finkelstein argues that by rejecting or adapting traditional monuments or by embracing aspects of the living memorial building movement, female veteranists placed the plight of all veterans at the center of their commemoration efforts. Their projects included diverse acts of service and advocacy on behalf of people they considered veterans and their families as they pushed to infuse American memorial traditions with their philosophy. In doing so, these women pioneered a relatively new form of commemoration that impacted American practices of remembrance, encouraging Americans to rethink their approach and provided new definitions of what constitutes a memorial. In the process, they shifted the course of American practices, even though their memorialization methods did not achieve the widespread acceptance they had hoped it would. Meticulously researched, Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials utilizes little-studied sources and reinterprets more familiar ones. In addition to the words and records of the women themselves, Finkelstein analyzes cultural landscapes and ephemeral projects to reconstruct the evidence of their influence. Readers will come away with a better understanding of how American women supported the military from outside its ranks before they could fully serve from within, principally through action-based methods of commemoration that remain all the more relevant today.
Дополнительное описание: Military history|First World War|History: specific events and topics|Gender studies: women and girls

Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials: How American Women Commemorated the Great War, 1917-1945, Finkelstein Allison S.