Reconstructing Patriarchy after the Great War: Women, Gender, and Postwar Reconciliation Between Nations

Reconstructing Patriarchy after the Great War is the first book to study women's historical involvement in postwar reconciliation. It examines the international marriages that took place during the occupation of the German Rhineland as well as the "Rhineland Horror" campaign that implicated French African soldiers in sullying German women's honor. It also explores how Americans and Germans reconciled their home fronts to peacetime by returning women to traditional female labor while simultaneously honoring them as mothers. In the final analysis, author Erika Kuhlman reveals how two systems of power and privilege-patriarchy and international relations-operated simultaneously to ensure male dominance and the victors' advantage in the postwar world.

About the Author:
Erika Kuhlman is an assistant professor of History and co-director of Women's Studies at Idaho State University