When the War Was Over: Women, War, and Peace in Europe, 1940-1956

by Claire Duchen (Editor), Irene Bandhauer-Schoffmann (Editor)

Overview

Popular images of post-war women represent them welcoming home the soldiers, but this volume asks, What happened next?The contributors use a range of methodological approaches to encourage the reader to question traditional historiography, the nature of the historical evidence, the process of memory, and the disparities between official discourse and personal narrative, and between written, visual and oral accounts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780718501808
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/27/2000
Pages:	274
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.57(d)

About the Author

The late Claire Duchen was Honorary Senior Research Fellow in French Studies, Univeristy of Sussex, and author of Feminism in France and Women's Rights and Women's Lives in France 1844-1968. Irene Bandhauer-Schoffmann is a lecturer at the Univeristy of Linz, Austria.