Gender and War in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe
Title | Gender and War in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2006 |
Authors | Wingfield, Nancy M., and Maria Bucur-Deckard |
Number of Pages | 264 |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
City | Bloomington |
Abstract | 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 experience and its 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 experiences challenge traditional gender roles; postwar restoration of gender order; collaboration and resistance; the body; and memory and commemoration. |
URL | http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780253111937/ |
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- 15. War and Gender: The Age of the World Wars and its Aftermath—An Overview
- 17. Total Warfare, Gender and the "Homefront" in Europe during the First and Second World Wars
- 19. History and Memory of Military Women and Female Soldiers in the Age of World Wars
- 24. Gender, Demobilization and the Reordering of Society after the First and Second World Wars
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