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 the Soviet Union to...
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London ; New York :
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: historical overview / Bonnie G. Smith
- 1. Battling for peace: the transformation of the women's movement in Cold War Czechoslovakia and easter Europe / Melissa Feinberg
- 2. "Democracy could go no further": Europe and women in the early 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 1945 / 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.