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Masculinity, Disability, and Politics in Polish War-Disabled Memoirs (1971) Aspasia Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Wojciech Śmieja
This article offers a contextualized analysis of disabled Polish war veterans’ memoirs published in 1971. This set of documents constitutes a remarkable source for understanding how masculinity and male corporeality are narrated and negotiated between politics, social and family lives, private and public spheres. The article focuses on the conventions and conditions of war-disability discourse production
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Response to Marina Hughson’s review of Ana Miškovska Kajevska, Feminist Activism at War: Belgrade and Zagreb Feminists in the 1990s, published in Aspasia 13 (2019): 216–222 Aspasia Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Ana Miškovska Kajevska
When Marina Hughson e-mailed me in May 2014 her criticism of my then recently defended doctoral dissertation, I hinted in my reply that I would be willing to comment more extensively if we would move our discussion to an academic journal. That was, in my view, a much better way to contribute to the publicly available scholarly knowledge on the topic in question. I am, therefore, thankful to her for
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The Making of Intellectual Women Aspasia Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Valentina Mitkova
Boiko Penchev, Nikolay Papuchiev, Noemi Stoichkova, Bilyana Borisova, Kristina Iordanova, Nadezhda Stoyanova, and Sirma Danova, eds., Literaturata: Udovolstvia i predizvikatelstva. Jubileen sbornik v chest na prof. Milena Kirova (The literature: Pleasures and challenges. Anniversary collection in honor of Prof. Milena Kirova), Sofia: University Press St. Kliment Ohridski, 2018, 728 pp., BGN 26 (hardback)
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In Memory of Marina Blagojević Hughson (February 5, 1958 – June 6, 2020) Aspasia Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Biljana Dojčinović
“You wanted to interview yourself. Why?There are many reasons. First of all, I am an experienced researcher and I understand well the power of the one who shapes questions and gives an implicit interpretative framework. Second, the envisaged scope for my life story is simply not sufficient, and my life cannot be easily formatted using general questions. I want to tell my life story when, how, and how
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Cherry Picking: Response to Andrea Feldman’s Review of Zilka Spahić Šiljak, ed., Bosanski labirint: Kultura, rod i liderstvo (Bosnian labyrinth: Culture, gender, and leadership), published in Aspasia 14 (2020): 196–197 Aspasia Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Zilka Spahić Šiljak
Andrea Feldman wrote a review of the book Bosanski labirint: Kultura, rod i liderstvo (The Bosnian labyrinth: Culture, gender, and leadership), which I edited and coauthored with my colleagues, Suada Penava and Jasna Kovačević. She decided to cherry-pick without proper references or citations to confirm her vague and biased assumptions.
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Public Health in Eastern Europe Aspasia Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Evguenia Davidova
Heike Karge, Friederike Kind-Kovacs, and Sara Bernasconi, eds., From the Midwife’s Bag to the Patient’s File: Public Health in Eastern Europe, Budapest: Central European University Press, 2017, vii–xix, 349 pp., $70.00/€62.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-963-386-208-7.Constantin Barbulescu, Physicians, Peasants, and Modern Medicine: Imagining Rurality in Romania, 1860–1910, translated by Angela Jianu, Budapest:
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Fairy Whisperer's March to the East Aspasia Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Marija Bularović,Višnja Krstić
Jelena J. Dimitrij ević, Sedam mora i tri okeana: Putem oko sveta (Seven seas and three oceans: Traveling around the globe), edited by Biljana Dojčinović, Belgrade: Laguna, 2016, 445 pp., price not listed (paperback), ISBN 978-86-521-2306-3.Jelena J. Dimitrijević, Pisma iz Indije (Letters from India), second edition, edited by Ana Stjelja, English translation by Željko V. Mitić, Hindi translation by Latika
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Women and War in the Balkans Aspasia Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Maria Bucur
Alin Ciupală, Bătălia lor: Femeile din România în Primul Război Mondial (Their batt le: Women in Romania during World War I), Iași: Polirom, 2017, 392 pp., 48 illustrations, RON 39.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-9-73466-577-8.Jelena Batinić, Women and Yugoslav Partisans: A History of World War II Resistance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, 287 pp., 11 illustrations, GBP 24.99 (paperback), ISBN:
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A Gloomy Carnival of Freedom Aspasia Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Katarzyna Nowak
This article investigates the experiences of Polish Displaced Persons (DPs) through the lens of sexuality, analyzing their perceptions of liberation and life in DP camps in Allied-occupied Germany and Austria (1945–1951). It draws on a wide array of sources, including archival material, memoirs, and letters. Employing Mikhail Bakhtin’s concepts of carnival and the carnivalesque, it argues that the
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New Perspectives on Bulgarian Women of Letters Aspasia Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Valentina Mitkova
Milena Kirova, ed., Mara Belcheva: Poezia (Mara Belcheva: Poetry), Volume 1, Sofia: Kibea, 2018, 268 pp., BGN 17 (paperback), ISBN 978-954-474-728-2.Milena Kirova, ed., Mara Belcheva: Proza i prevodi (Mara Belcheva: Prose and translations),Volume 2, Sofia: Kibea, 2018, 350 pp., BGN 19 (paperback), ISBN 978-954-474-729-9.Vanya Georgieva, Ekaterina Karavelova—Lora Karavelova: Kulturnoistoricheskiat
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Motherhood and Survival in the Stalinist Gulag Aspasia Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Elaine MacKinnon
This article analyzes the Gulag memoirs of four women political prisoners—Olga Adamova-Sliozberg, Liudmila Miklashevskaya, Nadezhda Joffe, and Valentina Grigorievna levleva-Pavlenko—to examine the interplay of motherhood and survival. Each was a mother of small children sentenced to forced labor camps in the northern polar regions of the Soviet Union. Motherhood played a complex role in their survival
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The East Side Story of Gender and Feminism Aspasia Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Gabriela Dudeková Kováčová
Judith Szapor, Hungarian Women’s Activism in the Wake of the First World War: From Rights to Revanche, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, 207 pp. 102.60 USD (hardback), ISBN 978-1-350-02049-8.Iveta Jusová and Jiřina Šiklová, eds., Czech Feminisms: Perspectives on Gender in East Central Europe, Bloomington: Indiana University Press 2016, 325 pp., no price listed (hardback), ISBN 978-0-25302-189-2
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Gender Identities in Women's and Feminist Periodicals in Serbia Aspasia Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Ana Kolarić
Slobodanka Peković, Časopisi po meri dostojanstvenog ženskinja: Ženski časopisi na početku 20. veka (Journals suited for respectable women: Women’s journals from the early twentieth century), Novi Sad-Beograd: Matica srpska, Institut za književnost i umetnost,2015, 378 pp., RSD 550 (paperback), ISBN 978-86-7946-154-4.Stanislava Barać, Feministička kontrajavnost: Žanr ženskog portreta u srpskoj periodici
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New Feminist Perspectives on the History of the Twentieth Century Aspasia Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Melissa Feinberg
Maria Bucur, Gendering Modernism: A Historical Reappraisal of the Canon, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017, xi + 149 pp., $24.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-3500-2625-4.Maria Bucur, The Century of Women: How Women Have Transformed the World Since 1900, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018, x + 232 pp., $35.00 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-4422-5739-9.
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Issues of Gender Representation in Modern Greek Art Aspasia Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Despoina Tsourgianni
There is a recent trend, mainly in the field of historiography but also in art history, toward the exploration of female autobiographical discourse, whether it concerns written (autobiographies, correspondence), painted (self-portraits), or photographic data. On the basis of the highly fruitful gender perspective, this article seeks to present and interpret the numerous photographs of the well-known
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Gender Tutelage and Bulgarian Women’s Literature (1878–1944) Aspasia Pub Date : 2018-03-01 Valentina Mitkova
AbstractThis article focuses on Bulgarian women writers’ activities, their reception, and their problematic existence in the context of the modernizing and emancipatory trends in Bulgarian society after the Liberation (1878–1944). The analysis is based on the concept of the (intellectual) hierarchy of genders and mechanisms of gender tutelage, traced in the specifics of women’s literary texts, their
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New Feminist Contributions to Serbian Herstory Aspasia Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Željka Janković,Svetlana Stefanović
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New Perspectives on Modernity, Nationalism, and Muslim Women in the Late Ottoman Period Aspasia Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Selin Çağatay
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Female Agrarian Workers in Early Twentieth-Century Hungary Aspasia Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Susan Zimmermann,Piroska Nagy
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Love and Sex in Wartime Aspasia Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Marta Havryshko
This article examines how the constructions of gender, female sexuality, nation, and war by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army infl uenced their att itudes to intimate fraternization between women (both members of the nationalist underground and civilians) and enemy men between 1939 and the mid-1950s. Conclusions are based on the analysis of a wide range of
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Militarizing Women in the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement from the 1930s to the 1950s Aspasia Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Olesya Khromeychuk
Much historiography focusing on women in the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army consists of describing, rediscovering, and celebrating the participation of women in the nationalist underground. This article rejects the celebratory approach to the inclusion of women in the narrative of the nationalist struggle. Instead, it focuses on the ways in which militarization
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Book Reviews Aspasia Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Selin Çağatay,Olesya Khromeychuk,Stanimir Panayotov,Zlatina Bogdanova,Margarita Karamihova,Angelina Vacheva
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Women and Gender in Europe from 1939 to the Present: Challenging and Reassessing the Narrative Aspasia Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild
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“Home Is Home No Longer”: Political Struggle in the Domestic Sphere in Postarmistice Hungary, 1919–1922 Aspasia Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Emily R. Gioielli
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On the Politics of Feminist Knowledge Production in the Post-Yugoslav Space Aspasia Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Chiara Bonfiglioli
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Gendered Images and Soviet Subjects: How the Komsomol Archive Enriched My Understanding of Gender in Soviet War Culture Aspasia Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Adrienne M. Harris
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Migration, Empire, and Liminality: Sex Trade in the Borderlands of Europe Aspasia Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Tracie L. Wilson
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“Comrades in Battle”: Women Workers and the 1906 Finnish Suffrage Victory Aspasia Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Eric Blanc
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Radio Free Europe Information Item #687/54 (29 January 1954): “The Decline of Family Life” Aspasia Pub Date : 2016-01-01 Melissa Feinberg
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NOT Finding Women in the Archives: The Case of Evegeniia Serebrennikova, Pioneering Woman Physician in Late Nineteenth-Century Russia Aspasia Pub Date : 2016-01-01 Michelle DenBeste
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Paternalism, Modernization, and the Gender Regime in Turkey Aspasia Pub Date : 2016-01-01 Pınar Melis Yelsalı Parmaksız
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A Woman Politician in the Cold War Balkans: From Biography to History Aspasia Pub Date : 2016-01-01 Krassimira Daskalova
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Writing the History of Ordinary Ottoman Women during World War I Aspasia Pub Date : 2016-01-01 Elif Mahir Metinsoy