Gender and war in twentieth-century Eastern Europe:
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Bloomington Indiana University Press c2006
Schriftenreihe:Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-237) and index
Introduction : gender and war in twentieth-century Eastern Europe / Nancy M. Wingfield and Maria Bucur -- Challenging gender roles/restoring order -- "Female generals" and "Siberian angels" : aristocratic nurses and the Austro-Hungarian POW relief / Alon Rachamimov -- Civilizing the soldier in postwar Austria / Maureen Healy -- Between Red Army and White Guard : women in Budapest, 1919 / Eliza Ablovatski -- Gendered collaborating and resisting -- Dumplings and domesticity : women, collaboration, and resistance in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia / Melissa Feinberg -- Denouncers and fraternizers : gender, collaboration, and retribution in Bohemia and Moravia during World War II and after / Benjamin Frommer -- Family, gender, and ideology in World War II Latvia / Mara Lazda -- Remembering war : gendered bodies, gendered stories -- Kosovo maiden(s) : Serbian women commemorate the wars of national liberation, 1912-1918 / Melissa Bokovoy -- Women's stories as sites of memory : gender and remembering Romania's world wars / Maria Bucur -- The nation's pain and women's shame : Polish women and wartime violence / Katherine R. Jolluck -- "The alienated body" : gender identity and the memory of the Siege of Leningrad / Lisa A. Kirschenbaum
This volume explores the role of gender on both the home and fighting fronts in eastern Europe during World Wars I and II. By using gender as a category of analysis, the authors seek to arrive at a more nuanced understanding of the subjective nature of wartime experiences and representations. While historians have long equated the fighting front with the masculine and the home front with the feminine, the contributors challenge these dichotomies, demonstrating that they are based on culturally embedded assumptions about heroism and sacrifice. Major themes include the ways in which wartime ex
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ISBN:0253111935
9780253111937

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