{"id":313,"date":"2017-03-23T12:46:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T12:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/?p=313"},"modified":"2017-03-23T12:48:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T12:48:05","slug":"catherine-lees-article-in-womens-history-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"Catherine Lee&#8217;s article in Women&#8217;s History Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine Lee, Honorary Associate, has recently published an article entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com.libezproxy.open.ac.uk\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/09612025.2017.1292630\" >\u2018\u201cGiddy Girls\u201d, \u201cScandalous Statements\u201d and a \u201cBurst Bubble\u201d: the war babies panic of 1914\u20131915\u2019<\/a> in a special\u00a0themed issue of <em>Women\u2019s History Review<\/em>\u00a0on \u2018Representing, Remembering and Rewriting Women\u2019s Histories of the First World War\u2019 (online, print issue\u00a0forthcoming early 2018). The article investigates the moral panic surrounding the alleged impending birth of \u2018war babies\u2019 to thousands of unmarried young women and girls, said to have been fathered by men recently departed for the Western Front in late 1914. The rumour ultimately proved to be largely unfounded \u2013 but not before it had attracted widespread press and public attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine Lee, Honorary Associate, has recently published an article entitled \u2018\u201cGiddy Girls\u201d, \u201cScandalous Statements\u201d and a \u201cBurst Bubble\u201d: the war babies panic of 1914\u20131915\u2019 in a special\u00a0themed issue of Women\u2019s History Review\u00a0on \u2018Representing, Remembering and Rewriting Women\u2019s Histories of the First World War\u2019 (online, print issue\u00a0forthcoming early 2018). The article investigates the moral panic surrounding &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/?p=313\" class=\"more-link\" >Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Catherine Lee&#8217;s article in Women&#8217;s History Review&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}