This work weaves together the study of gender during World War I with that of the evolution of nationalism and colonialism. The author challenges some current interpretations of the gendered experience of war, especially that of women, and its relation to national identity.

Introduction Part I Gendering the Nation: Definitions and Boundaries: The British Imperial State and the Construction of National Identities; From Empire to Nation: Images of Women and War in Ottoman Political Cartoons, 1908-1923; Men and Soldiers: British Conscripts, Concepts of Masculinity, and the Great War; Family, Masculinity, and Heroism in Russian War Posters of the First World War; Re-Generation: Nation and the Construction of Gender in Peace and War-Palestine Jews, 1900-1918; Taking Risks for Pictures: The Heroics of Cinematic Realism in World War I; Part II Borderlands: Identities and Sexualities; Fin-de-Sieck Theatrics: Male Impersonation and Lesbian Desire; Lesbians before Lesbianism: Sexual Identity in Early Twentieth-Century British Fiction Spectacles and Sexualities: The Mise-en-Scene of the Tirailleur Senegalais on the Western Front, 1914-1920; Objects to Possess and Discard: The Representation of Jews and Women by British Women Novelists of the 1920s; Part III Dissent and Acquiescence: War, Feminism, and Female Action; Challenging Traditions: Denominational Feminism in Britain, 1910-1920; Religion, Emancipation, and Politics in the Confessional Women's Movement in Germany, 1900-1933; Ideological Crossroads: Feminism, Pacifism, and Socialism; The Politics of Female Notables in Postwar Egypt; Part IV Moving Boundaries: Work, Gender, and Mobilization; Public Functions, Private Premises: Female Professional Identity and the Domestic-Service Paradigm in Britain, c. 1850-1930; Emily Goes to War: Explaining the Recruitment to the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in World War I; Work, Gender, and Identity in Peace and War: France 1890-1930; Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in Post-Ottoman Thessaloniki: The Great Tobacco Strike of 1914