Embracing Arms : : Cultural Representation of Slavic and Balkan Women in War /

Embracing Arms : : Cultural Representation of Slavic and Balkan Women in War / / ed. by Yana Hashamova, Helena Goscilo.

Discursive practices during war polarize and politicize gender: they normally require men to fulfill a single, overriding task—destroy the enemy—but impose a series of often contradictory expectations on women. The essays in the book establish links between political ideology, history, psychology, c...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
MitwirkendeR:
Goscilo, Helena,
Hashamova, Yana,
Lipovetsky, Mark,
Mamoon, Trina R.,
Mikhailova, Tatiana,
Ostrowska, Elżbieta,
Prokhorov, Alexander,
Prokhorova, Elena,
Rothstein, Robert A.,
Sandomirskaja, Irina,
Wienhold-Brokish, Jessica,
HerausgeberIn:
Goscilo, Helena,
Hashamova, Yana,
Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]
©2012
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (364 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • WORLD WAR II
  • Film and Television
  • Chapter 1 Invisible Deaths: Polish Cinema’s Representation of Women in World War II
  • Chapter 2 She Defends His Motherland: The Myth of Mother Russia in Soviet Maternal Melodrama of the 1940s
  • Chapter 3 Flight without Wings: The Subjectivity of a Female War Veteran in Larisa Shepit’ko’s Wings (1966)
  • Chapter 4 Gender(ed) Games: Romance, Slapstick, and Ideology in the Polish Television Series Four Tank Men and a Dog
  • 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
  • Chapter 6 Graphic Womanhood under Fire
  • Chapter 7 Songs of Women Warriors and Women Who Waited
  • RECENT WARS
  • Chapter 8 “Black Widows”: Women as Political Combatants in the Chechen Conflict
  • Chapter 9 War Rape: (Re)defining Motherhood, Fatherhood, and Nationhood
  • Chapter 10 Dubravka Ugrešić’s War Museum: Approaching the “Point of Pain”
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • Illustration

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