Women and gender in postwar Europe : from Cold War to European Union
Women and Gender in Postwar Europe charts the experiences of women across Europe from 1945 to the present day. Europe at the end of World War II was a sorry testimony to the human condition; awash in corpses, the infrastructure devastated, food and fuel in such short supply. From Soviet Union to the...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Florence : Taylor & Francis,
2012
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| Schlagworte: | Feminism - Europe - History - 20th century Women Feminism Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (255 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Women and Gender in Postwar Europe charts the experiences of women across Europe from 1945 to the present day. Europe at the end of World War II was a sorry testimony to the human condition; awash in corpses, the infrastructure devastated, food and fuel in such short supply. From Soviet Union to the United Kingdom and Ireland the vast majority of citizens on whom survival depended, in the postwar years, were women. This book charts the involvement of women in postwar reconstruction through the Cold War and post Cold-War years with chapters on the economic, social, and political dynamism that characterized Europe from the 1950s onwards, and goes on to look at the woman's place in a rebuilt Europe that was both more prosperous and as tension-filled as before. The chapters both look at broad trends across both eastern and western Europe; such as the horrific aftermath of World War II, but also present individual case studies that illustrate those broad trends in the historical development of women's lives and gender roles. The case studies show difference and diversity across Europe whilst also setting the experience of women in a particular country within the broader historical issues and trends, in such topics as work, professionalization, sexuality, consumerism, migration, and activism. The introduction and conclusion provide an overview that integrates the chapters into the more general history of this important period. This will be an essential resource for students of women and gender studies and for post 1945 courses. Front Cover -- Women and Gender in Postwar Europe -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: Historical overview: Bonnie G. Smith -- 1. Battling for peace: The transformation of the women's movement in Cold War Czechoslovakia and eastern Europe: Melissa Feinberg -- 2. "Democracy could go no further": Europe and women in theearly United Nations: Jan Lambertz -- 3. Women and social work in central and eastern Europe: Darja Zaviršek -- 4. Psychoanalysts on the radio: Domestic citizenship and motherhood in postwar Britain: Michal Shapira -- 5. Women as the "motor of modern life": Women's work in Europe west and east since : Francisca de Haan -- 6. "What's new" and is it good for you? Gender and consumerism in postwar Europe: M. Jane Slaughter -- 7. Happy motherhood and lesbian spaces: Women's initiative and the sexual mores of postwar Europe: Cynthia Kreisel -- 8. Political participation, civil society, and gender: Lessons from the Cold War?: Belinda Davis -- 9. Gender, race, and utopias of development: Young-Sun Hong -- 10. Gender and reframing of World War I in Serbia during the 1980s and 1990s: Melissa Bokovoy -- 11. Post-Soviet masculinities, shame, and the archives of social suffering in contemporary Lithuania: Arturas Tereskinas -- 12. Post-1989 women's activism in Poland: Joanna Regulska and Magdalena Grabowska -- Conclusion: Joanna Regulska -- Index. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (255 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780203126233 0203126238 9780415694995 041569499X |