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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wingfield, Nancy M. (Nancy Meriwether)

Bucur, Maria, 1968-

Series:

Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role.

History, Military.

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

Europe, Eastern.

Sex role--Europe, Eastern.

Eastern Europe.

Physical Description:

viii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Gender and war in 20th century Eastern Europe

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2006]

Summary:

This volume explores the role of gender on both the home and fightingfronts in eastern Europe during World Wars I and II. By using gender as a categoryof analysis, the authors seek to arrive at a more nuanced understanding of thesubjective nature of wartime experience and its representations. While historianshave long equated the fighting front with the masculine and the home front with thefeminine, the contributors challenge these dichotomies, demonstrating that they arebased on culturally embedded assumptionsabout heroism and sacrifice. Majorthemes include the ways in which wartime experiences challenge traditional genderroles; postwar restoration of gender order; collaboration and resistance; the body;and memory and commemoration.

Contents:

Introduction : gender and war in twentieth-century Eastern Europe / Nancy M. Wingfield and Maria Bucur

"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

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

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.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

0253347319

0253218446

OCLC:

62084325

Publisher Number:

9780253347312

9780253218445