Embracing arms : cultural representation of Slavic and Balkan women in war / [edited by] Helena Goscilo & Yana Hashamova.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goscilo, Helena, 1945-

Hashamova, Yana

Jacobs Family Cinema Studies Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War in mass media.

Women in mass media.

Women and war--Slavic countries.

Women and war.

Women and war--Balkan Peninsula.

Balkan Peninsula.

Slavic countries.

Physical Description:

x, 293 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, [2012]

Summary:

Discursive practices during war polarize and politicize gender. They normally require men to fulfill a single, overriding task, to destroy the enemy-but impose a series of often contradictory expectations on women. Centering on cultural representations, the essays establish links between political ideology, history, psychology, cultural studies, cinema, literature, and gender studies furthermore address questions such as-what is the role of women in war or military conflicts beyond the well-studied victimization? Can the often contradictory expectations of women and their traditional roles be [re]thought and [re]constructed? How do cultural representations of women during war times reveal conflicting desires and poke holes in the ideological apparatus of the state and society? Book jacket.

Contents:

I World War II

Film and Television

Chapter 1 Invisible Deaths: Polish Cinema's Representation of Women in World War II / Elẓbieta Ostrowska Ostrowska, Elẓbieta 29

Chapter 2 She Defends His Motherland: The Myth of Mother Russia in Soviet Maternal Melodrama of the 1940s / Alexander Prokhorov Prokhorov, Alexander 59

Chapter 3 Flight without Wings: The Subjectivity of a Female War Veteran in Larisa Shepit'ko's Wings (1966) / Tatiana Mikhailova Mikhailova, Tatiana, Mark Lipovetsky Lipovetsky, Mark 81

Chapter 4 Gender(ed) Games: Romance, Slapstick, and Ideology in the Polish Television Series Four Tank Men and a Dog / Elena Prokhorova Prokhorova, Elena 107

Literature, Graphics, Song

Chapter 5 Rage in the City of Hunger: Body, Talk, and the Politics of Womanliness in Lidia Ginzburg's Notes from the Siege of Leningrad / Irina Sandomirskaja Sandomirskaja, Irina 131

Chapter 6 Graphic Womanhood under Fire / Helena Goscilo Goscilo, Helena 153

Chapter 7 Songs of Women Warriors and Women Who Waited / Robert A. Rothstein Rothstein, Robert A. 179

II Recent Wars

Chapter 8 "Black Widows": Women as Political Combatants in the Chechen Conflict / Trina R. Mamoon Mamoon, Trina R. 207

Chapter 9 War Rape: (Re)defining Motherhood, Fatherhood, and Nationhood / Yana Hashamova Hashamova, Yana 233

Chapter 10 Dubravka Ugrešić's War Museum: Approaching the "Point of Pain" / Jessica Wienhold-Brokish Wienhold-Brokish, Jessica 253.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Jacobs Family Cinema Studies Fund.

ISBN:

6155225095

9786155225093

OCLC:

793581887

Publisher Number:

99952088587