Gender And War In Twentieth Century Eastern Europe

Author : Nancy M. Wingfield,Maria Bucur
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253111935

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Gender and War in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe by Nancy M. Wingfield,Maria Bucur Pdf

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.

Author : Nancy M. Wingfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:746470930

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Gender and War in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe. Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies by Nancy M. Wingfield Pdf

Author : Catherine Baker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350307773

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Gender in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe and the USSR by Catherine Baker Pdf

A concise and accessible introduction to the gender histories of eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the 20th century. These essays juxtapose established topics in gender history such as motherhood, masculinities, work and activism with newer areas, such as the history of imprisonment and the transnational history of sexuality. By collecting these essays in a single volume, Catherine Baker encourages historians to look at gender history across borders and time periods, emphasising that evidence and debates from Eastern Europe can inform broader approaches to contemporary gender history.

Author : Ann Allen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137169587

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Women in Twentieth-Century Europe by Ann Allen Pdf

Women's lives changed more in the 20th century than in any previous century. It was a period of transformation, not only of the political realm, but also the household, family and workplace. Ranging widely over Europe, this fascinating account is one of the first comprehensive surveys of its kind.

Author : Ann Allen
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015074239594

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Women in Twentieth-Century Europe by Ann Allen Pdf

Women's lives changed more in the Twentieth century than in any previous century. It was a period of transformation, not only of the political realm, but also the household, family and workplace. Ranging widely over Europe, this fascinating account is one of the first comprehensive surveys of its kind.

Author : Ann Taylor Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Suffragists
ISBN : 1403993742

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Women in Twentieth-Century Europe by Ann Taylor Allen Pdf

Author : Joanna Regulska,Bonnie G. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136454806

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Women and Gender in Postwar Europe by Joanna Regulska,Bonnie G. Smith Pdf

Women and Gender in Postwar Europe charts the experiences of women across Europe from 1945 to the present day. Europe at the end of World War II was a sorry testimony to the human condition; awash in corpses, the infrastructure devastated, food and fuel in such short supply. From Soviet Union to the United Kingdom and Ireland the vast majority of citizens on whom survival depended, in the postwar years, were women. This book charts the involvement of women in postwar reconstruction through the Cold War and post Cold-War years with chapters on the economic, social, and political dynamism that characterized Europe from the 1950s onwards, and goes on to look at the woman’s place in a rebuilt Europe that was both more prosperous and as tension-filled as before. The chapters both look at broad trends across both eastern and western Europe; such as the horrific aftermath of World War II, but also present individual case studies that illustrate those broad trends in the historical development of women’s lives and gender roles. The case studies show difference and diversity across Europe whilst also setting the experience of women in a particular country within the broader historical issues and trends, in such topics as work, professionalization, sexuality, consumerism, migration, and activism. The introduction and conclusion provide an overview that integrates the chapters into the more general history of this important period. This will be an essential resource for students of women and gender studies and for post 1945 courses.

Author : Nicole Dombrowski Risser,Nicole Dombrowski
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0815322879

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Women and War in the Twentieth Century by Nicole Dombrowski Risser,Nicole Dombrowski Pdf

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Angela K. Smith
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0719065747

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Gender and Warfare in the Twentieth Century by Angela K. Smith Pdf

Spanning the 20th century, this collection of accessible and very readable essays explores the ways in which men and women have both represented warfare, and represented themselves as participants in warfare.

Author : Anna Artwińska,Agnieszka Mrozik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000095142

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Gender, Generations, and Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond by Anna Artwińska,Agnieszka Mrozik Pdf

Communism in twentieth-century Europe is predominantly narrated as a totalitarian movement and/or regime. This book aims to go beyond this narrative and provide an alternative framework to describe the communist past. This reframing is possible thanks to the concepts of generation and gender, which are used in the book as analytical categories in an intersectional overlap. The publication covers twentieth-century Poland, Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic, the Soviet Union/Russia, former Yugoslavia, Turkish communities in West Germany, Italy, and Cuba (as a comparative point of reference). It provides a theoretical frame and overview chapters on several important gender and generation narratives about communism, anticommunism, and postcommunism. Its starting point is the belief that although methodological reflection on communism, as well as on generations and gender, is conducted extensively in contemporary research, the overlapping of these three terms is still rare. The main focus in the first part is on methodological issues. The second part features studies which depict the possibility of generational-gender interpretations of history. The third part is informed by biographical perspectives. The last part shows how the problem of generations and gender is staged via the medium of literature and how it can be narrated.

Author : Maria Bucur
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253003911

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Heroes and Victims by Maria Bucur Pdf

Heroes and Victims explores the cultural power of war memorials in 20th-century Romania through two world wars and a succession of radical political changes -- from attempts to create pluralist democratic political institutions after World War I to shifts toward authoritarian rule in the 1930s, to military dictatorships and Nazi occupation, to communist dictatorships, and finally to pluralist democracies with populist tendencies. Examining the interplay of centrally articulated and locally developed commemorations, Maria Bucur's study engages monumental sites of memory, local funerary markers, rituals, and street names as well as autobiographical writings, novels, oral narratives, and film. This book reveals the ways in which a community's religious, ethnic, economic, regional, and gender traditions shaped local efforts at memorializing its war dead.

Author : Karen Hagemann
Publisher : Berg Publishers
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1845205456

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Home/Front by Karen Hagemann Pdf

This book explores the intersections of the military, war and gender in 20th-century Germany from a variety of perspectives.

Author : Włodzimierz Borodziej,Stanislav Holubec,Joachim von Puttkamer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000711011

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The Routledge History Handbook of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century by Włodzimierz Borodziej,Stanislav Holubec,Joachim von Puttkamer Pdf

Challenges of Modernity offers a broad account of the social and economic history of Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century and asks critical questions about the structure and experience of modernity in different contexts and periods. This volume focuses on central questions such as: How did the various aspects of modernity manifest themselves in the region, and what were their limits? How was the multifaceted transition from a mainly agrarian to an industrial and post-industrial society experienced and perceived by historical subjects? Did Central and Eastern Europe in fact approximate its dream of modernity in the twentieth century despite all the reversals, detours and third-way visions? Structured chronologically and taking a comparative approach, a range of international contributors combine a focus on the overarching problems of the region with a discussion of individual countries and societies, offering the reader a comprehensive, nuanced survey of the social and economic history of this complex region in the recent past. The first in a four-volume set on Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century, it is the go-to resource for those interested in the ‘challenges of modernity‘ faced by this dynamic region.

Author : Angela K. Smith
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0719053013

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The Second Battlefield by Angela K. Smith Pdf

This book investigates the connection between women's writing about WWI and the development of literary modernisms, focusing on issues of gender which remain topical today. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished diaries and letters, the book examines the way in which the new roles undertaken by women triggered a search for new forms of expression. Blending literary criticism and history, the book contributes to the scholarship of women and expands our definition of modernisms.

Author : Jelena Batinić
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107091078

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Women and Yugoslav Partisans by Jelena Batinić Pdf

This book focuses on the mass participation of women in the communist-led Yugoslav Partisan resistance during World War II.