When the War Was Over Women, War, and Peace

Popular images of post-war women represent them welcoming home the soldiers, but this volume asks, "What happened next?"The contributors use a range of methodological approaches to encourage the reader to question traditional historiography, the nature of the historical evidence, the process of memory, and the disparities between official discourse and personal narrative, and between written, visual and oral accounts.

Plates

vii

Contributors

viii

Acknowledgements

xi

Introduction

1

(12)

Claire Duchen

Irene Bandhauer-Schoffmann

DISCOURSES OF WAR AND GENDER

`It did me good in lots of ways': British Women in Transition from War to Peace

13

(16)

Penny Summerfield

Mothers of the Nation: Post-war Gendered Interpretations of the Experiences of Dutch Resistance Women

29

(15)

Jolande Withuis

The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus: An Austrian Married Couple Narrate Their Wartime and Post-war Experiences

44

(15)

Ela Hornung

Girlhood in Transition? Preparing English Girls for Adulthood in a Reconstructed Britain

59

(12)

Penny Tinkler

Women's Fight for: A Gendered View of Hunger, Hoarding and Black Marketeering in Vienna after World War Two

71

(18)

Irene Bandhauer-Schoffmann

WOMEN, POLITICS, FEMINISM

Italian Women Enter Politics

89

(14)

Anna Rossi-Doria

The Adventure of Women's Suffrage in Greece

103

(16)

Tasoula Vervenioti

Communist Women in Finland, 1944-1948: Olga Virtanen's Story

119

(13)

Elina Katainen

Women's Associations in Hungary: Demobilization and Remobilization, 1945-1951

132

(14)

Andrea Peto

`Feminism is dead. Long live feminism!' The Women's Movement in France at the Liberation, 1944-1946

146

(15)

Sylvie Chaperon

`Anything but a suffragette!' Women's Politics in Germany after 1945: A Movement of Women?

161

(18)

Ute Gerhard

RECONSTRUCTING COMMUNITIES: EXILE, RETURN, BELONGING AND BETRAYAL

`A howl unheard': Women Shoah Survivors Dis-placed and Re-silenced

179

(15)

Ronit Lentin

Unwelcome in Austria: Returnees and Concentration Camp Survivors

194

(13)

Helga Embacher

Going `Home'? Politics, Gender and Jewishness in the Return from `Emigration' to East Germany

207

(15)

Barbara Einhorn

`The GI Bride': On the (De)Construction of an Austrian Post-war Stereotype

222

(11)

Ingrid Bauer

Crime and Punishment in Liberated France: The Case of les femmes tondues

233

(18)

Claire Duchen

Bibliography

251

(4)

Index

255

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When the War Was Over Women, War, and Peace in Europe, 1940-1956

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