Women and Men at War: A Gender Perspective on World War II and its Aftermath in Central and Eastern Europe. ed. by Maren Röger / Ruth Leiserowitz. fibre Verlag Inh. Dr. Peter Fischer Martinistr. 37 D-49080 Osnabrück
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The Second World War fundamentally changed the societies of Central and Eastern Europe. Social bonds and structures were destroyed by brutal occupation policies and extensive deportations. These had long-term consequences for the societies as a whole, but also for individuals within the social fabric of their lives. Not least of all, gender roles and gender relations were influenced by it. This everyday and gender historical dimension of the Second World War in Central and Eastern Europe has often come up short in the research whereby an integrated view of the effects in the post-war period was obscured.
This volume represents a collection of contributions about different countries in this region. This was an area scarred by having been overpowered and seized multiple times and by the brutal occupations of German and Soviet aggressors. And then there were the inner-societal tensions and conflicts that followed, discharging themselves along ideological and ethnic lines. The central questions are (1) about the ideological promptings and the everyday transformation of gender roles in the occupation and defense armies as well as in the partisan groups; (2) about the power of gendered interpretive models in official propaganda and the individual self-understanding of those who were occupiers and those being occupied; and (3) the corresponding effects of the war on the post-war period. Gender-specific bodily experiences also play an important role.
MAREN RÖGER is a research fellow (post-doc) at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw. She earned her Ph.D. in history from the University of Gießen, Germany, in 2010. Before, she studied history, media and cultural studies in Lüneburg, Germany, and Wrocław, Poland. Her recent research project deals with sexual violence, prostitution and love affairs between German occupiers and Polish locals during World War II. In general, her research is focused on European history of the 20th century with a focus on World War II, gender history, media history and history of memory. Her recent book, »Flucht, Vertreibung und Umsiedlung. Mediale Erinnerungen und Debatten in Deutschland und Polen seit 1989«, dealt with German and Polish memories regarding the expulsion of the Germans (published in 2011, Marburg).
RUTH LEISEROWITZ has been since 2009 Deputy Director at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw. She earned her Ph.D. in history from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Before, she studied history, Polish language and culture in Berlin and Vilnius. She was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Berlin School for European Comparative History at the Free University of Berlin. Her research is focused on European history of the 19th and 20th century with a focus on Transnational history, Jewish history, and the history of memory and border regions. Her recent book »Sabbatleuchter und Kriegerverein. Juden in der ostpreußisch-litauischen Grenzregion 1812–1942« dealt with Jewish life in a border region emphasizing the transnational character of their existence (published in 2010, Osnabrück).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword of the Editors . . .. 7
Maren Röger / Ruth Leiserowitz
Introduction: Gender and World War II in Central and Eastern Europe . .. 9
I GENDER RULES: THE POWER OF IDEOLOGICALLY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICALLY GENDERED INTERPRETIVE MODELS
Elizabeth Harvey
Homelands on the Move: Gender, Space and Dislocation in the Nazi Resettlement of German Minorities from Eastern and Southeastern Europe . .. 35
Mara Lazda
The Discourse of Power through Gender in World War II Latvia . . .. 59
Andrea Pető
Women as Victims and Perpetrators in World War II: The Case of Hungary . . 81
II GENDER ROLES AND GENDERED IDENTITIES IN ARMIES
Łukasz Kielban
Honor and Masculinity in the Polish Officer Corps during World War II in Captivity. Escapes and Courts of Honor: The Case of Oflag VII-A Murnau . . 97
Kerstin Bischl
Telling Stories. Gender Relationships and Masculinity in the Red Army 1941-45 . . 117
Maren Röger
Sexual Contact between German Occupiers and Polish Occupied in World War II Poland . . 135
Franka Maubach
Love, Comradeship, and Power – German Auxiliaries and Gender Relations in the Occupied Territories . .157
Georgeta Nazarska / Sevo Yavashchev
Change in Gender Roles: The Participation of Bulgarian Women in World War II . . . 179
III GENDER ROLES AND GENDERED IDENTITIES IN PARTISAN MOVEMENTS
Ruth Leiserowitz
In the Lithuanian Woods. Jewish and Lithuanian Female Partisans . . . 199
Barbara N. Wiesinger
Gendered Resistance: Women Partisans in Yugoslavia (1941-45) . . 219
Olena Petrenko
Anatomy of the Unsaid: Along the Taboo Lines of Female Participation in the Ukrainian Nationalistic Underground . . 241
IV POST-WAR: (DIS-)CONTINUITIES AND MEMORIES
Irina Rebrova
Russian Women about the War: A Gender Analysis of Ego-Documents . . 263
Vita Zelče
Latvian Women After World War II . .. 281
Barbara Klich-Kluczewska
Making Up for the Losses of War: Reproduction Politics in Post-War Poland . . 307
Contributors . . . . . 329
List of Abbreviations . . 335
Index of Persons . . . . 339
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