This book explores the intersections of the military, war and gender in 20th-century Germany from a variety of perspectives.
This book explores the intersections of the military, war and gender in 20th-century Germany from a variety of perspectives.
Nazi culture - Kristina Soderbaum - Lilian Harvey - Zarah Leanderah Leanderah Leander.
Following the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple by Roman armies in 70 C.E., new incarnations of Judaism emerged. Through ancient stories involving Jewish spinners and weavers, Miriam B. Peskowitz re-examines this critical event and--presenting a feminist interpretation in whic…
Looks at the diverse female stereotypes through the ages, exploring the origins, history, and significance of such figures as old maid, trophy wife, and prostitute with a heart of gold.
The story of how women's lives, loves, and dreams have been re-shaped since 1950, the year of Walt Disney's Cinderella and a time when teenage girls dreamed of marriage, Mr Right, and happy endings...Cinderella stories captured the imagination of girls in the 1950s, when dreams …
The book traces the evolution of gender ideologies in the Balkans, through emancipating women's roles during socialism and into the proliferation and normalization of hyper-sexualized images of women in advertising and other media in the post-socialist transition. Drawing on a m…
"This monograph reveals the various ways in which food writing of the early-Franco era was a potent biopolitical tool, producing ways of eating and thinking about food which privileged patriotism over personal desire. Food et Francoism examines a diverse range of official and no…
Welche Folgen hatte die Verbürgerlichung der deutschen Juden im 19. Jahrhundert auf das Geschlechterverhältnis? Inwiefern waren Einbindung, Erfahrung und Verarbeitung dieses Prozesses unterschiedlich für jüdische Männer und Frauen? Diesen für das Verständnis der deutsch-jüdische…
"Marking a return for Laura Mulvey to questions of film theory and feminism, as well as a reconsideration of new and old film technologies, this urgent and compelling collection of essays is essential reading for anyone interested in the power and pleasures of moving images. Its…
The book Lady Astronauts, Lady Engineers, and Naked Ladies is a gender history of the American space community and by extension a social history of American society in the twentieth century during the Cold War. In order to expand and differentiate the prevalent postwar narrative…
