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 Corunna recalled heartrending scenes of dead mothers with infants struggling to nurse at frozen breasts. Pacifist poets had eagerly seized similar stories to demonstrate the horrors of war, but this article shows the way in which mother and infant suffering could become a pro-war tool used by the Army. Officer memoirists subtly condemned Army wives for following the drum while highlighting their own fatherly compassion.

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揭露孕产教：英国的父权与拿破仑退伍军人的婴儿苦难故事中的战争男性化

尽管欧洲军队的男性化意识日渐增强，但在英国对拿破仑战争的描述中，孕产妇母乳喂养和培养父亲身份等国内理想却以惊人的频率出现。退伍军人对英军撤退到科伦纳（Corunna）的回忆录让人回想起死去的母亲令人伤心的场面，婴儿们挣扎着用冷冻的乳房进行护理。和平主义者的诗人急切地抓住了类似的故事来展示战争的恐怖，但是这篇文章展示了母婴痛苦可能成为陆军使用的反战工具。军官回忆录巧妙地谴责了军方妻子在鼓鼓鼓舞的同时强调了自己的父亲般的同情心。