Lecture topics

If you want to watch lecture videos from Spring 2021 to help you prepare for the seminars, you'll find them by clicking on the links.

The in-person lectures for Autumn 2022 are scheduled for Thursdays at 9am in FAB 5.03. I'd strongly encourage you to attend!

Part I: Mobilisation

1) Terms of engagement: war/sex/genderLink opens in a new window

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2) Conscripting martial masculinityLink opens in a new window

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3) Pacifism, feminism and anti-war resistanceLink opens in a new window

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Part II: Gendered War Work

4) What do soldiers do?Link opens in a new window

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5) Women in uniformLink opens in a new window

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6) Reading Week [no lecture]

7) Morale, morality and sexuality in the 'Good War'Link opens in a new window

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Part III: Aftermaths

8) Mourning and memorialisationLink opens in a new window

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9) Wounded bodies, disordered minds, and the remasculinization of veteransLink opens in a new window

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10) War, demobilisation and progressive social change?Link opens in a new window

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Seminar Topics

Click on the links for full details of each week's required readings, suggested further reading and seminar questions.

The Talis Aspire reading list is linked here: TalisLink opens in a new window.

1) Gender as construct and 'cause'?: the Spanish-American War (1898-99)Link opens in a new window

2) Conscripting masculinityLink opens in a new window

3) Maternalism and women's resistance to World War ILink opens in a new window

4) Nursing and the evolution of gender normsLink opens in a new window

5) The Women's Army Corps and the politics of sexuality in World War IILink opens in a new window

6) Reading Week [no seminar]

7) 'Good' and 'bad girls' in the 'Good War'Link opens in a new window

8) Gendered grief and 'Gold Star Mothers'Link opens in a new window

9) The 'remasculinization' of wounded veterans after World War IILink opens in a new window

10) War as an agent of progressive social change?Link opens in a new window