87 P - Empowering/Disempowering Women in World War I

Friday, June 2, 2017: 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
RSVLT 213 (Hofstra University)
Chair:
Sally Charnow, Hofstra University
"Perilous Promiscuity: The Amalgamation of Prostitution and Promiscuity During World War I in Texas and the Nullification of Women's Habeas Corpus Rights."
Jennifer Bridges, Grayson College
Women at war: cinema and iconography of the mater dolorosa in the First World War
Teresa Bertilotti, University Milano Bicocca
"Take my Husband Please": American and Canadian Women respond to Conscription during the First World War.
Donald Charles Eberle, Defiance College
"Quality Not Quantity": The Influence of World War I on Birth Control Discourse in the United States
Healy Thompson, York University

Session Abstract

This panel looks at the effects World War I had on women and their families. Two of the papers discuss some of the ways women were objectified by demonizing women as sexually dangerous in areas with high prostitution, and the use of grieving mothers of dead soldiers as propaganda. The panel also analyzes larger societal impacts by looking at the effects of the draft on families and marriages, and by exploring the connection between WWI and the eugenics side of the birth control movement.

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