De geïnterviewde vertelt over haar werk in het Franse verzet, en hoe ze is verraden en in eenzame opsluiting terecht kwam voordat ze naar Buchenwald werd getransporteerd. Ze werkte daar in de nabijgelegen wapenfabriek. Omdat ze verantwoordelijk was voor de temperatuur van de ovens heeft ze geprobeerd door het verlagen van de temperatuur de kwaliteit van de kogels te beïnvloeden. Door haar werk in de ...

"In recent years, questions about men and boys have aroused remarkable media interest, public concern and controversy. Across the world, health services are noticing the relevance of men's gender to problems as diverse as road accidents, diet and sexually transmitted disease. Teachers are increasingly preoccupied with the poor educational performance of boys, and criminologists have begun to explore ...

"Women and War in the Middle East provides a critical examination of the relationship between gender and transnationalism in the context of war, peace-building and post-conflict reconstruction in the Middle East. Critically examining the ways in which the actions of various local and transnational groups - including women's movements, diaspora communities, national governments, non-governmental actors ...

Using insights from contemporary cultural theory, this volume addresses questions of political identity and popular culture, state violence and genocide, speed machines and militarism, gender and resistance, cyberwar and mass media. Includes bibliographical references and index. xii, 333 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

This book offers an extensive introduction and 13 diverse essays on how World War II, the Holocaust, and their aftermath affected Jewish families and Jewish communities, with an especially close look at the roles played by women, youth, and children. Focusing on Eastern and Central Europe, themes explored include: how Jewish parents handled the Nazi threat; rescue and resistance within the Jewish family ...

This is the first English-language collection of essays on modern German history with a generational theme. Responding to a recent shift in social historical writing away from an exclusive focus on class towards an interest in other 'imagined communities' of ethnicity, gender and generation, it addresses, first, the extraordinary power and persistence of a German tradition of youthful rebellion extending ...

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These essays about decolonization include complex issues-including metropolitan politics, gender, sexuality, race, culture, nationalism and economy. Grouped around decolonization's most salient themes, this dynamic spectrum of essays is intended to encourage specialist and non-specialists alike to consider decolonization in Africa and Asia from a comparative, interdisciplinary perspective. Includes ...

Ondertitel op omslag: Gender relations in the family - a West African perspective. XV, 215 p. : figure, graf., table ; 25 cm

Jacques H. Aa was the head of the secretariat for the Committee of Education under the Jewish Council. He has drafted a large number of statistics on the Jewish population of Amsterdam, divided by age, gender, employment, and so on.

Very few women are wartime rapists. Very few women issue commands to commit sexual violence. Very few women play a role in making war plans that feature the intentional sexual violation of other women. This book is about those very few women. Women as Wartime Rapists reveals the stories of female perpetrators of sexual violence and their place in wartime conflict, legal policy, and the punishment of ...

Discusses how private life--family history, childhood experience, gender and sexuality, private aspiration and public image--assume a role in the causes and effects of war. ix, 363 pages ; 20 cm

Article based on the papers presented in the panel "Gender, collective memory and de-canonization", supported by the International Federaiton for Research of Women's History at the CISH. Sydney, 8 Juli 2005.

Employs diaries, biographies, interviews, artwork, literature, psychology, and historical documents to illustrate the role of gender, sexuality, aspirations, and public personae in the causes and effects of war. First edition. ix, 363 pages ; 25 cm

Examines Holocaust memoirs by six survivors of Auschwitz: Jean Amery, Charlotte Delbo, Fania Fenelon, Szymon Laks, Primo Levi, and Sara Nomberg-Przytyk. Shows how gender, profession, nationality, ethnicity, the status of each of them in the camp, etc., color their personal stories. Reflects on the chaos of Auschwitz and on the role of the grotesque in the survivors' narratives. Compares these six narratives ...