Billie Melman is Associate Professor of History at Tel-Aviv University and the author of Women's Orient's and Women and the Popular Imagination in the Twenties.

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