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Author | : Alaine Polcz |
Publisher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2002-07-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9633860059 |
Before the publication of this book, Alaine Polcz was widely recognized as a psychologist ministering to the needs of disturbed and incurably ill children and their families, as the author of numerous articles and several books on thanatology, and as the founder of the hospice movement in Hungary. The autobiographic account of the experiences of a woman, then 19-20, in the closing months of the Second World War. When it was first published, in 1991, the book was a revelation of past horrors in Hungary which, until then, had lingered on in the farthest reaches of the national memory as rumor and suspicion about the violent acts committed against women during a time of chaos, havoc, and savagery. The literary world quickly recognized the merits of this book: It was highly praised by Hungarian reviewers, awarded prizes, and has already been translated into French, Rumanian, Slovenian, and Serbian.
Author | : Mary Raum |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2024-11-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1040164994 |
This volume explores how art and artifacts can tell women’s stories of war—a critical way into these stories, often hidden due to the second-tier status of reporting women’s accomplishments. This unique lens reveals personal, cultural, and historically noteworthy experiences often not found in records, manuscripts, and texts. Nine stories from history are examined, from the mythical Amazons of Ancient Greece to a female prisoner of war during World War II. Each of the social, political, and battlefield experiences of Penthesilea, Artemisia, Boudica, the feminine cavaliers, the Dahomey Amazons, suffragists, World War I medical corps, and a World War II prisoner of war are intertwined with a particular work of art or an artifact. These include pottery, iconographic images, public sculpture, stone engraving, clothing, decorative arts, paintings, and pulp art. While each story stands alone, brought together in this volume they represent a cross-sectional reflection on the record of women and war. The chapters cover not only a diverse range of women from around the globe - the African continent, the Hispanic territory of Europe, Carian and Ancient Greece and Rome, Iran, Great Britain-Scotland-ancient Caledonia, Western Europe, and North America—but also a diverse choice of artwork and artifacts, eras, and the nature of the wars being fought. This book will be of value to those interested in gender across history and its interplay in the field of war.
Author | : Mandy Robotham |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2018-12-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0008339317 |
The USA Today Best Seller. An enthralling new tale of courage, betrayal and survival in the hardest of circumstances that readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Secret Orphan and My Name is Eva will love.
Author | : Gina M. Martino |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2018-03-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469641003 |
Across the borderlands of the early American northeast, New England, New France, and Native nations deployed women with surprising frequency to the front lines of wars that determined control of North America. Far from serving as passive helpmates in a private, domestic sphere, women assumed wartime roles as essential public actors, wielding muskets, hatchets, and makeshift weapons while fighting for their families, communities, and nations. Revealing the fundamental importance of martial womanhood in this era, Gina M. Martino places borderlands women in a broad context of empire, cultural exchange, violence, and nation building, demonstrating how women's war making was embedded in national and imperial strategies of expansion and resistance. As Martino shows, women's participation in warfare was not considered transgressive; rather it was integral to traditional gender ideologies of the period, supporting rather than subverting established systems of gender difference. In returning these forgotten women to the history of the northeastern borderlands, this study challenges scholars to reconsider the flexibility of gender roles and reveals how women's participation in transatlantic systems of warfare shaped institutions, polities, and ideologies in the early modern period and the centuries that followed.
Author | : Светлана Алексиевич |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0399588728 |
"Originally published in Russian as U voiny--ne zhenskoe lietiso by Mastatskaya Litaratura, Minsk, in 1985. Originally published in English as War's unwomanly face by Progress Publishers, Moscow, in 1988"--Title page verso.
Author | : G. Willow Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Comic books, strips, etc |
ISBN | : 9781779501660 |
"Wonder Woman created by William Moulton Marston."
Author | : Jenna Glass |
Publisher | : Del Rey |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : FICTION |
ISBN | : 9781984817204 |
Also has published earlier works under Black, Jenna.
Author | : J. David Riva |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Entertainers |
ISBN | : 0814332498 |
"In this collection of interviews and photographs, the many facets of Dietrich's personality and of her life during World War II are recounted by those whose lives she touched"--Front flap of jacket.
Author | : Gail Harris |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2009-12-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0810871009 |
When Gail Harris was assigned by the U.S. Navy to a combat intelligence job in 1973, she became the first African American female to hold such a position. Her 28-year career included hands on leadership in the intelligence community during every major conflict from the Cold War to Desert Storm to Kosovo, and most recently at the forefront of one of the Department of Defense's newest challenges: Cyber Warfare. At her retirement, she was the highest ranking African American female in the Navy. A Woman's War: The Professional and Personal Journey of the Navy's First African American Female Intelligence Officer is an inspirational memoir that follows Gail Harris's career as a naval intelligence officer, sharing her unique experience and perspective as she completed the complex task of providing intelligence support to military operations while also battling the status quo, office bullies, and politics. This book also looks at the way intelligence is used and misused in these perilous times.
Author | : Deirdre David |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0199609187 |
The first literary biography of the twentieth-century novelist Olivia Manning, this volume is a timely, expert, and well-researched biography that offers a vivid portrait of wartime survival and of London literary life from the 1950s through the 1970s.