a history of violence on the eastern front
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Krylova, Anna
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- O EUR 1E 2010
- Thesaurus
- tweede wereldoorlog, militaire beroepen, krijgsmacht, geweld, vrouwen in mannenberoepen, historisch, USSR, 1930-1939, 1940-1949, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Presents the history of female combat soldiers in the Soviet army from the 1930’s to 1945 and makes feminist analysis of it. Argues that women who volunteered for the front in 1941 saw the fighting as an expression of a new Soviet womanhood rather than enactment of male roles. Notes that the figure of the female combatant in a mass army invites scholars to consider combat violence as a meaning-carrying social activity and the role it plays in the construction of modern identity.