Women and Men at War
A Gender Perspective on World War II and its Aftermath in Central and Eastern Europe
Edited by Maren Röger Edited by Ruth Leiserowitz
Paperback (Published)
(November 2012)
ISBN: 9783938400838
6.02 x 8.98 inches
Price: $102.00
On back order
The Second World War fundamentally changed the societies of Central and Eastern Europe. Social bonds and structures were destroyed by brutal occupation policies and extensive deportations. These had long-term consequences for the societies as a whole, but also for individuals within the social fabric of their lives. Not least of all, gender roles and gender relations were influenced by it. This everyday and gender historical dimension of the Second World War in Central and Eastern Europe has often come up short in the research whereby an integrated view of the effects in the post-war period was obscured.
This volume represents a collection of contributions about different countries in this region. This was an area scarred by having been overpowered and seized multiple times and by the brutal occupations of German and Soviet aggressors. And then there were the inner-societal tensions and conflicts that followed, discharging themselves along ideological and ethnic lines. The central questions are (1) about the ideological promptings and the everyday transformation of gender roles in the occupation and defense armies as well as in the partisan groups; (2) about the power of gendered interpretive models in official propaganda and the individual self-understanding of those who were occupiers and those being occupied; and (3) the corresponding effects of the war on the post-war period. Gender-specific bodily experiences also play an important role.
The Second World War fundamentally changed the societies of Central and Eastern Europe. Social bonds and structures were destroyed by brutal occupation policies and extensive deportations. These had long-term consequences for the societies as a whole, but also for individuals within the social fabric of their lives. Not least of all, gender roles and gender relations were influenced by it. This everyday and gender historical dimension of the Second World War in Central and Eastern Europe has often come up short in the research whereby an integrated view of the effects in the post-war period was obscured.
This volume represents a collection of contributions about different countries in this region. This was an area scarred by having been overpowered and seized multiple times and by the brutal occupations of German and Soviet aggressors. And then there were the inner-societal tensions and conflicts that followed, discharging themselves along ideological and ethnic lines. The central questions are (1) about the ideological promptings and the everyday transformation of gender roles in the occupation and defense armies as well as in the partisan groups; (2) about the power of gendered interpretive models in official propaganda and the individual self-understanding of those who were occupiers and those being occupied; and (3) the corresponding effects of the war on the post-war period. Gender-specific bodily experiences also play an important role.
- Edited by Maren Röger
- Edited by Ruth Leiserowitz
Other Titles in this Series
Für ein Polen an Oder und Ostsee
Zygmunt Wojciechowski (1900–1955) als Historiker und Publizist
Volume 8
Raum und Nation in der polnischen Westforschung 1918–1948
Wissenschaftsdiskurse, Raumdeutungen und geopolitische Visionen im Kontext der deutsch-polnischen Beziehungsgeschichte
Volume 32
Der deutsche Katholizismus und Polen (1830–1849)
Identitätsbildung zwischen konfessioneller Solidarität und antirevolutionärer Abgrenzung
Volume 13
Danzig und seine Vergangenheit 1793–1997
Die Geschichtskultur einer Stadt zwischen Deutschland und Polen
Volume 9
Propaganda im Generalgouvernement
Die NS-Besatzungspresse für Deutsche und Polen 1939–1945
Volume 15
Zwischen Kriegen
Nationen, Nationalismen und Geschlechterverhältnisse in Mittel- und Osteuropa 1918-1939
Volume 7
Sabbatleuchter und Kriegerverein
Juden in der ostpreußisch-litauischen Grenzregion 1812–1942
Volume 24
Die “Volksdeutschen” in Polen, Frankreich, Ungarn und der Tschechoslowakei
Mythos und Realität
Volume 12
Geschichte und Gesetzesauslegung
Zu Kontinuität und Wandel des bundesdeutschen Wiedergutmachungsdiskurses am Beispiel der Ghettorenten
Volume 25
Zwischen Ostforschung und Osteuropahistorie
Zur Biographie des Historikers Gotthold Rhode (1916–1990)
Volume 27
Sport zwischen Ost und West
Beiträge zur Sportgeschichte Osteuropas im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
Volume 16
Wirtschaftskrisen als Wendepunkte
Ursachen, Folgen und historische Einordnungen vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart
Volume 33
Selbstbewusstsein und Modernisierung
Sozialkultureller Wandel in Preussisch-Litauen vor und nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg
Volume 3
Bevölkerungsökonomie – Ostforschung – Politik
Eine biographische Studie zu Peter-Heinz Seraphim (1902–1979)
Volume 17
Shades of a Nation
The Dynamics of Belonging among the Silesian and Jewish Populations in Eastern Upper Silesia (1922–1934)
Volume 34
Similar Books
Dis/United States of Vulnerability
Literary and Cultural Transgressions in U.S. Poetry Since the 1960s
Volume 330
European Drama and Performance Studies
Dramatisations politiques. Théâtre, politique et idéologie au XIXe siècle (1806-1914)
Volume 27
Modernization, Crises, Cultural Revolutions
Yugoslavia’s 1960s and 1970s through the amateur film lens
Visual Memory and Oblivion
Monuments and Conflicts in Urban Spaces in Central and Eastern Europe from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day
“Tod durch Erschießen”
Generaloberst Nikolaus von Falkenhorst. Wehrmachtsbefehlshaber in Norwegen 1940–1945. Erinnerungen – Verhörprotokolle – Urteilssprüche
Volume 63
“Zum Siege unserer menschenfreundlichen Prinzipien”
Ungarische Freimaurernetzwerke im „Orient“ 1886-1920
Coburgs südöstliche Netzwerke – Coburg’s Networks in Southeastern Europe
Bulgarien, Rumänien und Ostmitteleuropa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Hrsg. von Franziska Bartl und Frank-Lothar Kroll mit einem Grußwort Seiner Majestät des Königs der Bulgaren Simeon II.
Volume 39
Dark Like You
Zur medienreflexiven Modernität der Kinder- und Jugendzeitschrift ‚The Brownies’ Book‘ (1920–1921)
Volume 191
Das Generalgouvernement Belgien im Ersten Weltkrieg 1914-17–1918
Die Erinnerungen des Generalobersten Ludwig Freiherrn von Falkenhausen
Volume 64
Das Werden einer Universität
Die Protokolle des Akademischen Senats der Hamburgischen Universität 1919–1921