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

• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2006; ©2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 251 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 940.30820947
• Soggetto topico: Sex role - Europe, Eastern
• Soggetto geografico: Europe, Eastern History 20th century
• Altri autori: WingfieldNancy M (Nancy Meriwether) BucurMaria <1968->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Gender and War in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe; 2. "Female Generals" and "Siberian Angels": Aristocratic Nurses and the Austro-Hungarian POW Relief; 3. Civilizing the Soldier in Postwar Austria; 4. Between Red Army and White Guard: Women in Budapest,1919; 5. Dumplings and Domesticity: Women, Collaboration, and Resistance in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; 6. Denouncers and Fraternizers: Gender, Collaboration, and Retribution in Bohemia and Moravia during World War II and After; 7. Family, Gender, and Ideology in World War II Latvia ; 8. Kosovo Maiden(s): Serbian Women Commemorate the Wars of National Liberation, 1912-1918; 9. Women's Stories as Sites of Memory: Gender and Remembering Romania's World Wars; 10. The Nation's Pain and Women's Shame: Polish Women and Wartime Violence; 11. "The Alienated Body": Gender Identity and the Memory of the Siege of Leningrad; Select Bibliography; Contributors; Index
• 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Gender and war in 20th-century Eastern Europe
• Titolo autorizzato: Gender and war in twentieth-century Eastern Europe
• ISBN: 1-282-07280-3; 0-253-11193-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784672403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II