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Women and Men at War
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 wa.
Ladies in Arms
In contemporary popular culture, armed women take center stage – but how can they be read from a feminist perspective? How do films, comics, and TV series depict the newly fashionable gunwomen between objectification and feminist empowerment? The contributions to this volume ask this question from different vantage points in cultural and literary studies, film and visual culture studies, history, and art history. They examine military and civic gun cultures, the rediscovery of historical armed women and revolutionaries, cultural phenomena such as gangsta rap, narcocultura and US politics, Bollywood and French cinema, and distinct genres such as the graphic novel, the romance novel, or the German police procedural Tatort.
German-occupied Europe in the Second World War
Inspired by recent works on Nazi empire, this book provides a framework to guide occupation research with a broad comparative angle focusing on human interactions. Overcoming national compartmentalization, it examines Nazi occupations with attention to relations between occupiers and local populations and differences among occupation regimes. This is a timely book which engages in historical and current conversations on European nationalisms and the rise of right-wing populisms.
Negotiating the Nazi Occupation of France
The French, the Basques, and the myriad of foreigners who lived in wartime France often developed clever strategies for negotiating the Nazi Occupation of 1940–1944. This sometimes entailed living in harmony and cooperating with the “enemy,” accommodating to the Germans’ presence, or rejecting them through various modes of resistance and hostility. People so often simply tried to survive the Occupation as best as they could; and contrary to early perceptions of the French people. Most were neither “bad” nor “good” in a murky moral universe that was decidedly not black and white. As this book argues, that murky universe needs to be explored beyond the solely French or German experience. By largely focusing on daily life, the authors create a space in which to explore relations among people of varying ethnic, religious, regional, and national identities. They also engage with multiple disciplines: anthropology, history, visual studies, genocide studies, as well as transnational, memory, and gender studies.
Female Administrators of the Third Reich
This book compares female administrators who specifically chose to serve the Nazi cause in voluntary roles with those who took on such work as a progression of established careers. Under the Nazi regime, secretaries, SS-Helferinnen (female auxiliaries for the SS) and Nachrichtenhelferinnen des Heeres (female auxiliaries for the army) held similar jobs: taking dictation, answering telephones, sending telegrams. Yet their backgrounds and degree of commitment to Nazi ideology differed markedly. The author explores their motivations and what they knew about the true nature of their work. These women had access to information about the administration of the Holocaust and are a relatively untapped resource. Their recollections shed light on the lives, love lives, and work of their superiors, and the tasks that contributed to the displacement, deportation and death of millions. The question of how gender intersected with Nazism, repression, atrocity and genocide forms the conceptual thread ofthis book.
Gendering Fascism
What role did gender play in fascist visions and politics? The contributions in this volume map the category of gender in modern forms of political organisation and mobilisation of women and men; in propaganda and in the disciplining of bodies. In this theoretical framework, gender and fascism are seen as deeply intertwined. ‘Gendering fascism’ denotes a paradigmatic lens through which to explore the configurations, strategies, and technologies of fascist imaginaries and politics. Presenting empirical case studies of Europe, Asia and America as gendered sites of historical and transnational fascist engagement, the volume challenges lingering Eurocentric perspectives in fascism studies. Contributors are: Ryan Anningson, Anca Axinia, Andrea Germer, Brian J Griffith, Vera Marstaller, Meguro Akane, Toni Morant, Inbal Ofer, Hanna-Leena Paloposki, Andrea Pető, Jasmin Rückert, George Souvlis, Rosa Vasilaki, Caroline Waldron, and Dagmar Wernitznig.
Frauen im Kriegsdienst
Krieg ist Männersache? Nein, auch Frauen sind Kriegs-Akteurinnen. Im Zweiten Weltkrieg gehörten sie ebenso wie Männer zu SS und Wehrmacht. Ob als Flakhelferinnen, Aufseherinnen, SS-Helferinnen oder Funkerinnen: Frauen hielten die NS-Maschinerie am Laufen – und viele reihten sich aus Überzeugung ein. Thomas Hanifle porträtiert Südtirolerinnen, die auf unterschiedlichen Wegen in den Dienst von SS und Wehrmacht kamen, und geht den Beweggründen für den Dienstantritt ge-nauso nach wie der Frage nach ihrer Mitverantwortung. » Frauen als Täterinnen im Zweiten Weltkrieg » Erstmalige Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema in Südtirol » Journalistisch aufgearbeitete Frauenbiografien
Wer gehört zu uns?
In many countries around the world, the idea of the welfare state is being called into question, while the topic of flight and migration is giving a boost to right-wing populism. Decades of powerful paradigms such as social solidarity and global justice are loosing acceptance, while fears of "uncontrolled immigration" undermine confidence in the functioning of the welfare state. Answers to the question of who belongs to "us" under which conditions and who is allowed to participate in welfare state services experience a dramatic shift. David Abraham explores the interrelation of immigration, integration and solidarity in the capitalist West of the 20th and 21st centuries. Using the example of Germany, the USA and Israel, the lawyer and historian shows why "soft on the inside, hard on the outside", once the basic formula for establishing stable welfare states, will no longer be viable in the future. These insights are supplemented and deepened in a biographical interview about history and origin, about law and populism, but also about Abraham's changeable academic career.
IBSS: Sociology: 2005 Vol. 55
First published in 1952, the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology) is well established as a major bibliographic reference for students, researchers and librarians in the social sciences worldwide. Key features * authority: Rigorous standards are applied to make the IBSS the most authoritative selective bibliography ever produced. Articles and books are selected on merit by some of the world's most expert librarians and academics. * breadth: today the IBSS covers over 2000 journals - more than any other comparable resource. The latest monograph publications are also included. * international Coverage: the IBSS reviews scholarship published in over 30 languages, including publications from Eastern Europe and the developing world. *User friendly organization: all non-English titles are word sections. Extensive author, subject and place name indexes are provided in both English and French.
Die Entwicklung der Beziehungen zwischen Zentrum und Regionen in Russland von Jelzin bis Putin
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Politik - Region: Russland, Note: 2.3, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Seminar für Wissenschaftliche Politik), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar: Föderalismus im Systemvergleich, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden die politischen Beziehungen zwischen dem föderalen Zentrum (der Zentralregierung und ihren Institutionen in Moskau) und der Regionen in der Russischen Föderation analysiert. Dabei werde ich mich auf die Entwicklungen in der der Zeit der Präsidentschaft Jelzins bis zu den Reformprozessen unter Putin konzentrieren.Nach dem Zerfall der Sowjetunion entstand anstelle des unitarischen Sowjetstaates in Russland...
