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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818146603321

Titolo

Gender and war in twentieth-century Eastern Europe / / edited by Nancy M. Wingfield and Maria Bucur

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2006

ISBN

1-282-07280-3

0-253-11193-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 251 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies

Altri autori (Persone)

WingfieldNancy M (Nancy Meriwether)

Bucur-DeckardMaria <1968->

Disciplina

940.3082/0947

Soggetti

Sex role - Europe, Eastern

Europe, Eastern History, Military 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-237) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.