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

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hashamova, Yana (Editor ), Goscilo, Helena, 1945- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Central European University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • World War II, Film and Television. Invisible deaths : cinema's representation of women in World War II / Elżbieta Ostrowska
  • She defends his motherland : the myth of Mother Russia in Soviet maternal melodrama of the 1940s / Alexander Prokhorov
  • Flight without wings : the subjectivity of a female war veteran in Larisa Shepitʹko's Wings (1966) / Tatiana Mikhailova and Mark Lipovetsky
  • Gender(ed) games : romance, slapstick, and ideology in the Polish television series Four tank men and a dog / Elena Prokhorova
  • Literature, Graphics, Song. Rage in the city of hunger : body, talk, and the politics of womanliness in Lidia Ginzburg's Notes from the siege of Leningrad / Irina Sandomirskaja
  • Graphic womanhood under fire / Helena Goscilo
  • Songs of woman warriors and women who waited / Robert A. Rothstein
  • Recent Wars. "Black widows": women as political combatants in the Chechen conflict / Trina R. Mamoon
  • War rape :(re)defining motherhood, fatherhood, and nationhood / Yana Hashamova
  • Dubravka Ugrešíc's War museum : approaching the "point of pain" / Jessica Wienhold-Brokish.