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

• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 251 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 940.3082/0947
• Soggetto topico: Sex role - Europe, Eastern
• Soggetto geografico: Europe, Eastern History, Military 20th century
• Altri autori: WingfieldNancy M (Nancy Meriwether) Bucur-DeckardMaria <1968->
• 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.
• 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.: 9910818146603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies.