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Embracing arms: cultural representation of Slavic and Balkan women in war

Helena Goscilo and Yana Hashamova
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Preface and Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • I. WORLD WAR II
    • CHAPTER 1 Invisible Deaths: Polish Cinema's Representation of Women in World War II (Elżbieta Ostrowska, page 29)
    • CHAPTER 2 She Defends His Motherland: The Myth of Mother Russia in Soviet Maternal Melodrama of the 1940s (Alexander Prokhorov, page 59)
    • CHAPTER 3 Flight without Wings: The Subjectivity of a Female War Veteran in Larisa Shepit'ko's Wings (1966) (Tatiana Mikhailova and Mark Lipovetsky, page 81)
    • CHAPTER 4 Gender(ed) Games: Romance, Slapstick, and Ideology in the Polish Television Series Four Tank Men and a Dog (Elena Prokhorova, page 107)
    • CHAPTER 5 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, page 131)
    • CHAPTER 6 Graphic Womanhood under Fire (Helena Goscilo, page 153)
    • CHAPTER 7 Songs of Women Warriors and Women Who Waited (Robert A. Rothstein, page 179)
  • II. RECENT WARS
    • CHAPTER 8 "Black Widows": Women as Political Combatants in the Chechen Conflict (Trina R. Mamoon, page 207)
    • CHAPTER 9 War Rape: (Re)defining Motherhood, Fatherhood, and Nationhood (Yana Hashamova, page 233)
    • CHAPTER 10 Dubravka Ugrešić's War Museum: Approaching the "Point of Pain" (Jessica Wienhold-Brokish, page 253)
  • List of Contributors (page 273)
  • Index (page 275)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
SR 72.4 (Winter 2013): 862-863 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5612/slavicreview.72.4.0862
Citable Link
Published: 2012
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9786155225567 (ebook)
  • 9786155225093 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Central European
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