Borderlines : genders and identities in war and peace, 1870-1930 / edited by Billie Melman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Billie Melman -- Pt. I. Gendering the Nation: Definitions and Boundaries. The British Imperial State and the Construction of National Identities / Pat Thane. From Empire to Nation: Images of Women and War in Ottoman Political Cartoons, 1908-1923 / Fatma Muge Gocek. Men and Soldiers: British Conscripts, Concepts of Masculinity, and the Great War / Ilana R. Bet-El. Family, Masculinity, and Heroism in Russian War Posters of the First World War / Karen Petrone. Re-Generation: Nation and the Construction of Gender in Peace and War - Palestine Jews, 1900-1918 / Billie Melman. Taking Risks for Pictures: The Heroics of Cinematic Realism in World War I / Sonya Michel -- Pt. II. Borderlands: Identities and Sexualities. Fin-de-Siecle Theatrics: Male Impersonation and Lesbian Desire / Martha Vicinus. Lesbians before Lesbianism: Sexual Identity in Early Twentieth-Century British Fiction / David Trotter.

Spectacles and Sexualities: The "Mise-en-Scene" of the "Tirailleur Senegalais" on the Western Front, 1914-1920 / Annabelle Melzer. "Objects to Possess and Discard": The Representation of Jews and Women by British Women Novelists of the 1920s / Phyllis Lassner -- Pt. III. Dissent and Acquiescence: War, Feminism, and Female Action. Challenging Traditions: Denominational Feminism in Britain, 1910-1920 / Jacqueline R. deVries. Religion, Emancipation, and Politics in the Confessional Women's Movement in Germany, 1900-1933 / Ursula Baumann. Ideological Crossroads, Feminism, Pacifism, and Socialism / Amira Gelblum. The Politics of Female Notables in Postwar Egypt / Beth Baron -- Pt. IV. Moving Boundaries: Work, Gender, and Mobilization. Public Functions, Private Premises: Female Professional Identity and the Domestic-Service Paradigm in Britain, c. 1850-1930 / Anne Summers. Emily Goes to War: Explaining the Recruitment to the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in World War I / Doron Lamm.

Work, Gender, and Identity in Peace and War: France 1890-1930 / Francoise Thebaud. Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in Post-Ottoman Thessaloniki: The Great Tobacco Strike of 1914 / Efi Avdela.