| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 251 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies
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Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-237) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Europe, Eastern -- History, Military -- 20th century.
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Eastern Europe. |
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History, Military. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Sex role -- Europe, Eastern.
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Sex role. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Military history.
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| Subject |
Gender roles. |
| Added Author |
Wingfield, Nancy M. (Nancy Meriwether)
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Bucur, Maria, 1968-
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| Added Title |
Gender and war in 20th century Eastern Europe |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Gender and war in twentieth-century Eastern Europe. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2006 0253347319 9780253347312 (DLC) 2005029505 (OCoLC)62084325 |
| ISBN |
9780253111937 (electronic book) |
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0253111935 (electronic book) |
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0253347319 |
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0253218446 |
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9780253347312 |
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9780253218445 |
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