This book, the first to study women's historical involvement in postwar reconciliation, examines how patriarchy and the international relations system operated simultaneously to ensure postwar male privilege.

ERIKA KUHLMAN is an Assistant Professor of History at Idaho State University, USA.

American Doughboys and German Frauleins: Securing Patriarchy and Privilege in the Occupied Rhineland Imperialism and Postwar Reconciliation: The International and Transnational "Rhineland Horror" Campaign "What to Do with the Germans?": American Exceptionalism and German-American Reconciliation Women Activists in the Postwar World: Gender, Reconciliation, and Humanitarian Aid Binding up "Bitter Wounds": Gender, Nationalism, and Reconciliation on the Home Front in Germany and in the United States