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Gender and War in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe. Edited by Nancy M. Wingfield and Maria Bucur. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. ISBN 0-253-21844-6. Photographs. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. 251. $24.95.
This collection of high-quality essays is designed to explore littleknown aspects of the two world wars in Eastern Europe. The contributions have been grouped thematically in three sections devoted to gender roles, gender and occupation, and the gendered commemoration of war. The result is a coherent volume that will be of particular interest to social and cultural historians of modern Europe. In the first section Maureen Healy and Elisa Ablovatski consider the impact of defeat in 1918 on the ways in which gender was understood in Austria and Hungary respectively and how the family was depicted as...