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Book SynopsisExplores the role of gender on both the home and fighting fronts in Eastern Europe during the First and Second World Wars. This book includes themes such as: the ways in which wartime experiences challenge traditional gender roles; post-war restoration of gender order; collaboration and resistance; the body; and memory and commemoration.
Trade ReviewThis collection of high-quality essays is designed to explore little-known aspects of the two world wars in Eastern Europe. The contributions have been grouped thematically in three sections devoted to gender roles, gender and occupation, and the gendered commemoration of war. The result is a coherent volume that will be of particular interest to social and cultural historians of modern Europe.
* The Journal of Military History 71.4, 2007 *
[This book] is a . . . welcome addition to the literature on gender in Europe during a particularly violent century. Oct. 2008
* Slavonic & East European Review *
. . . an exceptionally rich collection of diverse texts. . . . [A] significant contribution in the interdisciplinary field of gender studies. . .
* Signs *
This volume is an impressive collection of articles that will appeal to those interested in the history of eastern Europe, war and the war experience, both world wars, and gender and women's studies.
-- Laurie Stoff * russian-front.com *
. . . thoughtful, fascinating . . . . this fine volume is notable for its unified presentation of complex and engaging issues. It provides an introduction to the most significant recent historiography in gender studies and military history, as well as an overview of some of the most stimulating new research being done in an important field. March 2009
-- Andrea Orzoff * H-Ideas, H-Net *
. . . this fine volume is notable for its unified presentation of complex and engaging issues. It provides an introduction to the most significant recent historiography in gender studies and military history, as well as an overview of some of the most stimulating new research being done in an important field. . . . Rarely are compilations like this one so consistently well written and intriguing.March, 2009
-- Andrea Orzoff * H-Ideas, H-Net *
This excellent collection of 11 articles advances the thriving English-language historiography on gender, wars and the military into the too often neglected territories of twentieth-century Eastern Europe.Vol. 39.4 2009
-- Anders Ahlback * European History Quarterly *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
1. Introduction: Gender and War in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe Nancy M. Wingfield and Maria Bucur
Part I. Challenging Gender Roles/Restoring Order
2. "Female Generals" and "Siberian Angels": Aristocratic Nurses and the Austro-Hungarian POW Relief Alon Rachamimov
3. Civilizing the Soldier in Postwar Austria Maureen Healy
4. Between Red Army and White Guard: Women in Budapest, 1919 Eliza Ablovatski
Part II. Gendered Collaborating and Resisting
5. Dumplings and Domesticity: Women, Collaboration, and Resistance in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Melissa Feinberg
6. Denouncers and Fraternizers: Gender, Collaboration, and Retribution in Bohemia and Moravia during World War II and After Benjamin Frommer
7. Family, Gender, and Ideology in World War II Latvia Mara Lazda
Part III. Remembering War: Gendered Bodies, Gendered Stories
8. Kosovo Maiden(s): Serbian Women Commemorate the Wars of National Liberation, 1912–1918 Melissa Bokovoy
9. Women's Stories as Sites of Memory: Gender and Remembering Romania's World Wars Maria Bucur
10. The Nation's Pain and Women's Shame: Polish Women and Wartime Violence Katherine R. Jolluck
11. "The Alienated Body": Gender Identity and the Memory of the Siege of Leningrad Lisa A. Kirschenbaum
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