ISBN:
9781136454813
,
9780203126233
,
9780415694995
,
9780415695008
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 243 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Women and Gender in Postwar Europe
DDC:
305.4209409/04
Keywords:
Women History 20th century
;
Feminism History 20th century
;
European Union countries Social conditions
;
Europe Social conditions 20th century
Abstract:
Women and Gender in Postwar Europe charts the experiences of women across Europe from 1945 to the present day. Europe at the end of World War II was a sorry testimony to the human condition; awash in corpses, the infrastructure devastated, food and fuel in such short supply. From Soviet Union to the United Kingdom and Ireland the vast majority of citizens on whom survival depended, in the postwar years, were women. This book charts the involvement of women in postwar reconstruction through the Cold War and post Cold-War years with chapters on the economic, social, and political dynamism that c
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; Women and Gender in Postwar Europe; Copyright Page; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Introduction: Historical overview: Bonnie G. Smith; 1. Battling for peace: The transformation of the women's movement in Cold War Czechoslovakia and eastern Europe: Melissa Feinberg; 2. "Democracy could go no further": Europe and women in theearly United Nations: Jan Lambertz; 3. Women and social work in central and eastern Europe: Darja Zaviršek; 4. Psychoanalysts on the radio: Domestic citizenship and motherhood in postwar Britain: Michal Shapira
Description / Table of Contents:
5. Women as the "motor of modern life": Women's work in Europe west and east since : Francisca de Haan6. "What's new" and is it good for you? Gender and consumerism in postwar Europe: M. Jane Slaughter; 7. Happy motherhood and lesbian spaces: Women's initiative and the sexual mores of postwar Europe: Cynthia Kreisel; 8. Political participation, civil society, and gender: Lessons from the Cold War?: Belinda Davis; 9. Gender, race, and utopias of development: Young-Sun Hong; 10. Gender and reframing of World War I in Serbia during the 1980s and 1990s: Melissa Bokovoy
Description / Table of Contents:
11. Post-Soviet masculinities, shame, and the archives of social suffering in contemporary Lithuania: Arturas Tereskinas12. Post-1989 women's activism in Poland: Joanna Regulska and Magdalena Grabowska; Conclusion: Joanna Regulska; Index;
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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