Nicole A. Dombrowski (ed.)

Women and War in the Twentieth Century

Enlisted with or without Consent
Herausgeber: Dombrowski, Nicole A

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Produktbeschreibung

The contributors to this work trace the evolution of women's position as victims of war showing also how they have been increasinly incorporated into battle as actors and perpetrators. It documents women's experiences from World War I through to the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, and analyzes war's disruptions of daily life, its effects on children, rape as a war crime, access to equal opportunity, and women's resistance to violence.

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First published in 2005. This volume documents women's 20th century wartime experiences from World War I through the recent conflicts in Bosnia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 148mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780815322870
• ISBN-10: 0815322879
• Artikelnr.: 21926374

Autorenporträt

Nicole Ann Dombrowski received her Ph.D. in modern European history from New York University in 1995. She is currently finishing a book Families Under Fire: French Civilians and the German Invasion of France, 1940-1942 which analyzes the French state s provisions for civilian security during World War II.

Inhaltsangabe

ONE Soldiers, Saints, or Sacrificial Lambs? Womens Relationship to Combat
and the Fortification of the Home Front in the Twentieth Century PART I
1914-1939 TWO Tortured and Exalted by War: French Catholic Women, 1914-
1918, THREE The Great War and Modern Motherhood: La Maternité and the
Bombing of Paris FOUR The Enemy Within: The Problem of British Womens
Sexuality During the First World War FIVE Why We Joined the Revolution:
Voices of Chinese Women Soldiers PART II 1940-1945 SIX Surviving the German
Invasion of France: Women's Stories of the Exodus of 1940 SEVEN The Womanly
Face of War: Soviet Women Remember World War II EIGHT A Question of
Silence: The Rape of German Women by Soviet Occupation Soldiers NINE The
Lesbian Threat: Within the World War II Women's Army Corps TEN The Silent
Significant Minority: Japanese-American Women, Evacuation, and Internment
During World War II ELEVEN Turning Women into Weapons: Japan's Women, the
Battle of Saipan, and the "Nature of the Pacific War" PART III 1946-PRESENT
TWELVE Gender, War, and the Birth of States: Syrian and Lebanese Women's
Mobilization During World War II THIRTEEN Silence, Invisibility, and
Isolation: Mayan Womens Strategies for Defense and Survival in Guatemala
FOURTEEN "It s Right to Fight": Women Insurgents in Peru FIFTEEN Surfacing
Gender: Reengraving Crimes Against Women in Humanitarian Law