Embracing Arms: Cultural Representation of Slavic and Balkan Women in War (Hardcover)

Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction

I. WORLD WAR II

Film and Television:

El?bieta Ostrowska Invisible Deaths: Polish Cinema's Representation of Women in World War II

Alexander Prokhorov She Defends His Motherland: The Myth of Mother Russia in Soviet Maternal Melodrama of the 1940s

Tatiana Mikhailova and The Subjectivity of a Female War Veteran in Larisa Shepit'ko's Mark Lipovetsky Wings (1966)

Elena Prokhorova Gender(ed) Games: Romance, Slapstick, and Ideology in the Polish Television Series Four Tank Men and a Dog

Literature, graphics, song,:

Irina Sandomirskaja Rage, Body, and Power Talk in the City of Hunger: the Politics of Womanliness in Lidia Ginzburg's Notes from the Siege of Leningrad

Helena Goscilo Graphic Womanhood under Fire

Robert Rothstein Songs of Women Warriors and Women Who Waited

II. RECENT WARS

Trina Mamoon "Black Widows": Women as Political Combatants in the Chechen Conflict

Yana Hashamova War Rape: (Re)defining Motherhood, Fatherhood, and Nationhood

Jessica Wienhold-Brokish Dubravka Ugre?i?'s War Museum: Approaching the "Point of Pain"