Met lit. opg. en reg. viii, 320 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Although in recent years scholars have explored the cultural construction of masculinity, they have largely ignored the ways in which masculinity intersects with other categories of identity, particularly those of race and ethnicity. The essays in Race and the Subject of Masculinities address this concern and focus on the social construction of masculinity - black, white, ethnic, gay, and straight ...

Examines the relationship between memory, history and the competing narratives of identity, place and gender in Australian society. The study is a window on the Australian past, demonstrating the centrality of memory to the writing of history. Cover title: Memory & history in twentieth-century Australia. viii, 255 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm

Introduction: Non-state aspects of genocide / Henry C. Theriault and Hazel Cameron ; The Islamic State's Êzîdî genocide in Iraq: the Sinjār operations / Fazil Moradi and Kjell Anderson ; Why was Benghazi 'saved' but Sinjar allowed to be lost? New failures of genocide prevention, 2007-2015 / Hannibal Travis ; What could not be written: a study of the oral transmission of Sayfo genocide memory among ...

Part 1. The romance of war. 1. Technologies of War, Media, and Dissent in the Post-9/11 Work of Krzysztof Wodiczko ; 2. Historical reenactment: Romantic Amnesia or Counter-Memory? - Part II. The Body of War. 3. Abu Ghraib, Gender, and the Military ; 4. The Body as Political Corpus. - Part III. The Landscape of War. 5 Controlling the Frame: Photojournalism, Digital Technology, and "Modern Warfare" ; ...

Abstract: This paper is a brief historiography of the complexities of unraveling how gender constructs inform how society perceives both female perpetrators of the Third Reich and victims of sexual assault during the Holocaust. The women within these categories experienced vastly different power dynamics from 1939-1945 with the implementation of anti-Semitic ideology that would go on to forge the genocidal ...

"During the war in Sierra Leone (1991-2002), members of various rebel movements kidnapped thousands of girls and women, some of whom came to take an active part in the armed conflict alongside the rebels. In a stunning look at the life of women in wartime, Chris Coulter draws on interviews with more than a hundred women to bring us inside the rebel camps in Sierra Leone. When these girls and women ...

Met lit. opg. en index. x, 189 p. : krt. ; 22 cm

Eugenics has accumulated generations of interest as experts attempted to connect biology, human capacity, and policy. In the past and the present, eugenics speaks to questions of race, class, gender and sex, evolution, governance, nationalism, disability, and the social implications of science. In the current climate, in which the human genome project, stem cell research, and new reproductive technologies ...

This demographic survey of the 1.700 Jews who survived the Holocaust by hiding in Berlin provides an empirical framework for understanding the phenomenon in the capital of Nazi Germany and throughout Europe. The study adresses four primary issues : how many Jews attempted to hide, when Jews decided to hide, how many hidden Jews were arrested and whether gender and age affected survival.

Het archief bevat een album met handtekeningen van vrouwen van de Rotterdamse kehilloh die bij de ingebruikneming van het nieuwe joodse gemeentehuis een voorhangsel aanboden, om te gebruiken in de gerenoveerde Synagoge Botersloot in 1939; deze synagoge werd in mei 1940 vernietigd; de meeste vrouwen zijn in de tweede wereldoorlog omgekomen.

In dit nummer van het tijdschrift 'Bijdragen tot de Eigentijdse Geschiedenis' staat het thema van 'vrouw en maatschappij' in de tussenoorlogse periode centraal. Een belangrijk deel van het boek is gewijd aan de beeldvorming rond de vrouw in het interbellum. Het beeld van de vrouw als moeder en als echtgenote blijkt de ganse periode door een sterk leven te leiden. Twee buitenlandse bijdragen tenslotte ...

When the Germans captured nearly two million French soldiers in 1940, they created a group of some 800,000 French prisoner of war wives. The author investigates their experiences during the five-year period their husbands were prisoners and considers the politics of gender in Vichy France. Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-244) and index. xxii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Lists of personnel of the statistical department of the Zhytomyr administration and applications for employment, personal files of teachers, regulations of the administration on organization of police, the procedure recording acts of civil status, instructions on census of population and of livestock, information on land in public farms of the region, certificates of teachers, lists of industrial enterprises ...

Within the larger history of fashion, especially for women, in Nazi Germany, Guenthor (history, Houston Community College, Texas) finds smaller stories of economic greed and political machinations; of ideological hyperboles, cultural contestations, and the manufacture of illusion; of gender fashioning and class conflict; of high fashion salons and Jewish ghettos; and of world war, home fronts, and ...

"Ethnic cleansing" has become one of the key terms of the fin-de-siecle. In the former territory of Yugoslavia, along the fringes of the old Soviet Empire, and in Africa whole populations are being murdered or forced from lands they have lived on for centuries. Andrew Bell-Fialkoff explains the history of this obscene practice, tracing it from antiquity to the present and showing how, in different ...

Verslag van een congres n.a.v. de 100ste verjaardag van de oprichting van het 'Wissenschaftlich-humanitäre Komitee' (1897) over de kruisbestuiving tussen seksuele hervormings- en emancipatiebewegingen en hun theoretische benadering. De aandacht gaat - naast mondiale ontwikkelingen - vooral uit naar trends in de 20ste-eeuwse Duitse homo/lesbische beweging, externe invloeden (vrouwenbeweging, politiek) ...

"The UCLA Center for Middle East Development (CMED) series on Middle East security and cooperation features new and original scholarship on many of the most critical issues facing the region. Each book presents a variety of perspectives on a specific topic, such as democracy in the Middle East, dynamics of Israeli-Palestinian relations, Gulf security, and the gender factor in the Middle East. Aside ...

xii, 539 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

M.40.RGE - Documentation from the Russian State Archive of the Economy, 1939-1945
 
 The Sub-Record Group is comprised of documentation from the population census conducted in January 1939 throughout the entire Soviet Union. The census was conducted on a national level in regions and cities, and includes data regarding nationality, mother tongue, gender, literacy, education, profession and ...