| Description |
1 online resource (x, 260 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction / Claire Duchen and Irene Bandhauser-Schöffmann -- Discourses of war and gender. 'It did me good in lots of ways' : British women in transition from war to peace / Penny Summerfield -- Mothers of the nation : post-war gendered interpretations of the experiences of Dutch resistance women / Jolande Withuis -- The myth of Penelope and Odysseus : an Austrian married couple narrate their wartime and post-war experiences / Ela Hornung -- Girlhood in transition? Preparing English girls for adulthood in a reconstructed Britain / Penny Tinkler -- Women's fight for food : a gendered view of hunger, hoarding and black marketeering in Vienna after World War Two / Irene Bandhauer-Schöffmann -- Women, politics, feminism. Italian women enter politics / Anna Rossi-Doria -- The adventure of women's suffrage in Greece / Tasoula Vervenioti -- Communist women in Finland, 1944-1948 : Olga Virtanen's story / Elina Katainen -- Women's associations in Hungary : demobilization and remobilization, 1945-1951 / Andrea Petö -- 'Feminism is dead. Long live feminism!' The women's movement in France at the liberation, 1944-1946 / Sylvie Chaperon -- 'Anything but a suffragette!' Women's politics in Germany after 1945 : A movement of women? / Ute Gerhard -- Reconstructing communities : exile, return, belonging and betrayal. 'A howl unheard': Women Shoah survivors dis-placed and re-silenced / Ronit Lentin -- Unwelcome in Austria : returnees and concentration camp survivors / Helga Embacher -- Going 'home'? Politics, gender and Jewishness in the return from 'emigration' to East Germany / Barbara Einhorn -- 'The GI bride': On the (de)construction of an Austrian post-war stereotype / Ingrid Bauer -- Crime and punishment in liberated France : the case of les femmes tondues / Claire Duchen |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-254) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Women -- Europe
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Reconstruction (1939-1951)
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Women and war -- Europe
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Europe
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Women -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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Reconstruction (1939-1951)
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Women
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Women and war
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Nachkriegszeit
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Frau
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Tweede Wereldoorlog.
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Gevolgen.
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Vrouwen.
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Geschichte 1940-1956.
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Europe
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Europa
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Duchen, Claire
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Bandhauer-Schöffmann, Irene, 1958-
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| ISBN |
9781441172709 |
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144117270X |
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1282710508 |
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9781282710504 |
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9786612710506 |
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6612710500 |
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