This volume explores the role of gender on both the home and fighting fronts in Eastern Europe during the First and Second World Wars. By using gender as a category of analysis, the authors seek to arrive at a more nuanced understanding of the subjective nature of wartime experience and its 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 experiences challenge traditional gender roles; post-war restoration of gender order; collaboration and resistance; the body; and memory and commemoration.
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[E]ngaging read... a remarkable scholarly accomplishment... a marvelous job ... a pioneering study...essential reading ... excellent text for undergraduate and graduate classes." -- H-NET(HABSBURG)- Malgorzata Fidelis, Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago.(January, 2008)
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Nancy M. Wingfield is Associate Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She is co-author of Return to Diversity: A Political History of East Central Europe since World War II and co-editor (with Maria Bucur) of Staging the Past: The Politics of Commemoration in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848 to the Present.
Maria Bucur is John W. Hill Associate Professor of History at Indiana University and author of Eugenics and Modernization in Interwar Romania.
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New York, Women's Center, Red Cross, Soviet Union, Great War, Darba Sieviete, Red Army, Princeton University Press, People's Courts, White Terror, Habsburg Monarchy, Maria Bucur, University of California Press, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Francis Joseph, Nazi Germany, Paragraph Eleven, Die Unzufriedene, Fine Reise, Outlaw's Diary, East European Monographs, Prince Lazar, Russisches Tagebuch, Sabina Cantacuzino New!
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- Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars by Margaret Randolph / Jenson, Jane / Michel, Sonya / Weitz, Margaret Col Higonnet on 4 pages
- Unruly Women of Paris: Images of the Commune by Gay Gullickson on page 20, page 91, and Back Matter
- Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family and Nazi Politics by Claudia Koonz on page 107, page 129, and page 147
- Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (Canto) by Jay Winter on page 18, page 89, and Back Matter
- Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars by George L. Mosse on page 18, page 67, and Back Matter
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