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1 - The couple

from Part I - Private Life

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2013

Jay Winter
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Yale University, Connecticut
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This chapter explains the experience of married couples in wartime. It explores how husbands and wives worked to bridge the physical and existential gap that separated combatants from civilians and how the war prompted temporary changes in the character of married life. It also describes how couples confronted, overcame and sometimes fell victim to the stresses associated with long-distance marriage and the anxieties of war. Peggy Bette's study of war widows in Lyon states that some war widows avoided economic disaster by assuming responsibility for their family business. The moral panic that characterised discussions of divorce and marital disintegration in the post-war era nonetheless overstated the severity of the problem. Each of the major combatant nations had mobilised well over a million married men. Most returned home, were reunited with their wives and families, and remained married.
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Print publication year: 2014

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  • The couple
  • Edited by Jay Winter, Yale University, Connecticut
  • Book: The Cambridge History of the First World War
  • Online publication: 05 December 2013
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CHO9780511675683.003
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  • The couple
  • Edited by Jay Winter, Yale University, Connecticut
  • Book: The Cambridge History of the First World War
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CHO9780511675683.003
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  • The couple
  • Edited by Jay Winter, Yale University, Connecticut
  • Book: The Cambridge History of the First World War
  • Online publication: 05 December 2013
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CHO9780511675683.003
Available formats
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