Maternal Martyrdom Unmasked: British Fatherhood and the Masculinization of War in Napoleonic Veterans’ Tales of Infant Suffering
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DOI: 10.1177/0363199019875179
Abstract: Despite the growing masculinization of Europe’s armies, domestic ideals such as maternal breastfeeding and nurturing fatherhood appeared with surprising frequency in British accounts of the Napoleonic Wars. Veterans’ memoirs of the British Army’s retreat to… read more here.
Keywords: infant suffering; martyrdom unmasked; war; maternal martyrdom ... See more keywords