| Description |
1 online resource (x, 293 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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, cultural studies, cinema, literature, and gender studies and addresses questions such as- what is the role of women in war or military conflicts beyond the well-studied victimization? Can the often contradictory expectations of women and their traditional roles be (re)thought and (re)constructed? How do cultural representations of women during war times reveal conflicting desires and poke holes in the ideological apparatus of the state and society? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed July 3, 2015) |
| Subject |
War in mass media.
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Women in mass media.
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Women and war -- Slavic countries
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Women and war -- Balkan Peninsula
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HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
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War in mass media
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Women and war
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Women in mass media
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Balkan Peninsula
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Slavic countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Goscilo, Helena, 1945- editor
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Hashamova, Yana, editor.
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| ISBN |
9786155225567 |
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6155225567 |
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