Bodies of Work (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009230285)

Bodies of Work examines the transnational development of large-scale national systems, international organizations, technologies, and cultural material aimed at rehabilitating Allied ex-servicemen, disabled in the First World War. When nations mobilised in August 1914, it was thought that casualties would be minimal and the war would be quickly over. Little consideration was given to what ought to be done for those men whose bodies would forever bear the marks of war's destruction. Julie M. Powell charts how rehabilitation emerged as the best means to deal with millions of disabled ex-servicemen. She considers the ways in which rehabilitation was shaped by both durable and discrete influences, including social reformism, paternalist philanthropy, the movement for workers' rights, patriotism, class tensions, cultural ideas about manliness and disability, nationalism, and internationalism. Powell sheds light on the ways in which rehabilitation systems became sites for the contestation and maintenance of boundaries of belonging.

Author: Julie M. Powell
ISBN-10: 100923028X
ISBN-13: 9781009230285
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/27/2022
Pages: 270
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d