1. Karen Hagemann, "Home/Front: The Military, Violence and Gender Relations in the Age of the World Wars," in Home/Front: The Military, War and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany, ed. Hagemann and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (London: Berg, 2002), 2
2. Elise Cleveland Mead, "A Woman's War: An Account of the Work of the Women's Division of the YMCA During the World War," unpublished, undated manuscript, World War I-related records, Y.USA.4-1, Box 65, Folder 1, 5, Kautz Family YMCA Archives, Social Welfare History Archives, Elmer L. Andersen Library, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Mead distinguishes the U.S. women's YMCA work from that of their British counterparts by noting that "American women went much nearer the front than the English 'Y' women." See also Susan Zeiger, In Uncle Sam's Service: Women Workers with the American Expeditionary Force, 1917-1919 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999), 74. For the same pattern in Britain, see Jeffrey S. Reznick, Healing the Nation: Soldiers and the Culture of Care-giving in Britain During the Great War (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004), 56.
3. Martha Hanna, Your Death Would be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006), 17–18.
4. Susan Zeiger, In Uncle Sam’s Service; Kennedy, Over Here: The First World War and American Society (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980); Ute Daniel, The War From Within: German Working-Class Women in the First World War (New York: Berg, 1997); Susanne Rouette, Sozialpolitik als Geschlechterpolitik: die Regulierung der Frauenarbeit nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg (Frankfurt: Campus, 1993); Karin Hausen, “Die Sorge der Nation für ihre ‘Kriegsopfer’: Ein Bereich der Geschlechterpolitik während der Weimarer Republik,” in Von der Arbeiterbewegung zum modernen Sozialstaat, ed. Jurgen Kocka (Munich: Saur Verlag, 1994), 719–39.
5. Sultan Barakat, “Post-War Reconstruction and Development: Coming of Age,” in After the Conflict: Reconstruction and Development in the Aftermath of War, Sultan Barakat (London: I. B. Tauris, 2005), 25.