My Husband is Interested in War Generally
Gender, Family History and the Emotional Legacies of Total War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4925877 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lucy Noakes (0000-0003-1268-4406, University of Brighton, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 610-626 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-2025 • E-ISSN: 1747-583X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09612025.2017.1292634 |
| OpenAlex | W2593434638 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 9 |
In the autumn of 2014, as Britain embarked on four years of activities to commemorate and mark the centenary of the First World War, the Mass Observation project asked its panellists to reflect on their feelings about the war. Over 180 people responded, writing about their family involvement in the war, about their thoughts and feelings on Remembrance Sunday 2014, and about popular representations of the war in the early twenty-first century. This article examines some of these responses, considering the extent to which gender and age shaped not only the panellists’ stated relationship to the centenary of the war, but also the language with which they expressed this relationship. It draws on ideas from the ‘emotional turn’ in historical studies to argue that older women, who often had a personal memory of the lived legacies of the war, drew on a particularly expressive repertoire to convey both an empathy with the men and women whose lives were shaped by the First World War, and to argue for a particular moral position with regard to warfare. These empathetic responses, which the article argues have much in common with family histories of the war, should be taken seriously by historians who examine the cultural memory of the war and who are often keen to dismiss the widespread sense of the war as a tragic blunder
Art · Empathy · Feeling · Just war theory · Literature · Repertoire · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · World War II · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Psychology · Social Psychology · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
Inheriting the family
The Memorial Afterlives of Online Crowdsourcing
Making the Memory Book
Introduction
The Memory-Keeping Daughter
Gallantry on the Shankill road
The long shadow of the air war
Unthinking remembrance? Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red and the significance of centenaries
Centenaries, museum audiences and discourses of commemoration
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2024 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |