A Useless War Memory: Erotic Fraternization, German Soldiers, and Gender in Finland
Title | A Useless War Memory: Erotic Fraternization, German Soldiers, and Gender in Finland |
Publication Type | Book Chapter |
Year of Publication | 2008 |
Authors | Heiskanen, Anu |
Editor | Paletschek, Sylvia, and Sylvia Schraut |
Book Title | The Gender of Memory: Cultures of Remembrance in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Europe |
Pagination | 204-220 |
Publisher | Campus-Verlag |
City | Frankfurt |
Abstract | This chapter analyzes how Finnish women who had fraternized with German soldiers were socially stigmatized in the post-war era because Finnish-German collaboration was eclipsed from the national narrative. The author argues here that fraternizing women were a convenient scapegoat as ‘the symbolic image of a German’s whore provided a usable and efficient counter-image to affirm the central themes of the grand narrative: national unity, heroic masculinity and self-sacrifice.’ |
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