عنوان

Gender and war in twentieth-century Eastern Europe /

(Number (ISBN

0253111935

(Number (ISBN

1282072803

(Number (ISBN

9780253111937

(Number (ISBN

9781282072800

Erroneous ISBN

0253218446

Erroneous ISBN

0253347319

Erroneous ISBN

9780253218445

Erroneous ISBN

9780253347312

Number

b761652

Title Proper

Gender and war in twentieth-century Eastern Europe /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Nancy M. Wingfield and Maria Bucur.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Bloomington :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Indiana University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2006.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (viii, 251 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations

Series Title

Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-237) and index.

Text of Note

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.

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Text of Note

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. Major themes include the ways in which wartime ex.

Title

Gender and war in twentieth-century Eastern Europe.

International Standard Book Number

9780253347312

Parallel Title

Gender and war in 20th century Eastern Europe

Sex role-- Europe, Eastern.

Rôle selon le sexe-- Europe de l'Est.

HISTORY-- Military-- World War I.

Sex role.

Europe, Eastern, History, Military, 20th century.

Europe de l'Est, Histoire militaire, 20e siècle.

Eastern Europe.

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HIS-- 027090

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Bucur-Deckard, Maria,1968-

Wingfield, Nancy M., (Nancy Meriwether)

Date of Transaction

20201204211749.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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