Tag: WWI

An Intimate History of German Soldiers in the First World War

By Jason Crouthamel September 20, 2016 Modern Europe 0 comments

Some Great War soldiers transgressed masculine gender norms by dreaming of being women.

soldier prostitute

Army Education Commission, Social Hygiene Division circa 1916-1919 Box 177, Folder 1

Title Steady, buddy, there's a come-back
Contributors U.S. Army Educational Commission
Date 1918
Extent 8" x 10"
Physical Form Poster
Type of Resource Still Image
Subject Health education
World War, 1914-1918. United States. Posters
Sexually transmitted diseases
Military education
Prostitution
Language eng
Physical location University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives. http://special.lib.umn.edu/swha/
Local identifier swhp0187
purl http://purl.umn.edu/62388
Access conditions Use of this image may be governed by U.S. and international copyright laws. Please contact the Social Welfare History Archives for permission to publish this image. http://special.lib.umn.edu/swha/

Naming & Shaming Women: Reporting on VD Trials During WWI

By Laura Lammasniemi July 28, 2016 Medicine and Sexuality 1 comment

In 1918 over 100 women were convicted for infecting a member of the armed forces with VD.

Drunk Canadians in London, November 1916

By Julia Laite November 11, 2014 Canada, Sexual Labour, United Kingdom 16 comments

Julia Laite The world has just commemorated the 100th annivesary of the beginning of the First World War. While most historians have come to categorize the war as, in the words of Richard Evans, ‘the seminal catastrophe of the entire period’, ideologically driven government officials and some military historians insist that […]