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When the war was over : women, war and peace in Europe, 1940-1956 /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Duchen, Claire, Bandhauer-Schöffmann, Irene, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Leicester University Press, 2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.