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When the war was over : women, war and peace in Europe, 1940-1956 / edited by Claire Duchen and Irene Bandhauer-Schoffmann.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Europe.
- Women.
- Reconstruction (1939-1951).
- Women and war--Europe.
- Women and war.
- World War, 1939-1945--Women--Europe.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Women--Europe--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Leicester University Press, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Popular images of post-war women represent them welcoming home the soldiers, but this volume asks, What happened next?The contributors use a range of methodological approaches to encourage the reader to question traditional historiography, the nature of the historical evidence, the process of memory, and the disparities between official discourse and personal narrative, and between written, visual and oral accounts.
- Contents:
- Contents; Plates; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; DISCOURSES OF WAR AND GENDER; WOMEN, POLITICS, FEMINISM; RECONSTRUCTING COMMUNITIES: EXILE, RETURN, BELONGING AND BETRAYAL; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-254) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612710506
- 9781282710504
- 1282710508
- 9781441172709
- 144117270X
- OCLC:
- 651663722
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