Abstract

The Americanist scholarship on gender and the Great War remains relatively underdeveloped, especially compared to Europeanist analogues. In the 1990s, though, historians of the United States began redressing that imbalance. Their work, along with other scholarship implicitly about gender, shows that the war exposed and invested with fresh urgency long-simmering tensions over the proper character and roles of American men and women—tensions between what we might call gender tradition and gender upheaval.