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Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
Margaret Poulos
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Description for Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
Hardback. Series: Gutenberg-E. Num Pages: 350 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVG; HBTB; HBW; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 234 x 23. Weight in Grams: 536.
The image of a woman bearing arms is a potent symbol of modern Greece's nation-building conflicts. Margaret Poulos traces the influence of this image on Greek feminist discourse from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1970s and 1980s. The study begins with the heroines of the 1821 Revolution and the extent to which Greek protofeminism capitalized on this legacy. Poulos then explores the role of partisan women in the communist-led resistance movement during World War II and Greece's subsequent collapse into Civil War, which saw a striking and controversial increase in the number of women fighting in the ranks of the ... Read more
The image of a woman bearing arms is a potent symbol of modern Greece's nation-building conflicts. Margaret Poulos traces the influence of this image on Greek feminist discourse from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1970s and 1980s. The study begins with the heroines of the 1821 Revolution and the extent to which Greek protofeminism capitalized on this legacy. Poulos then explores the role of partisan women in the communist-led resistance movement during World War II and Greece's subsequent collapse into Civil War, which saw a striking and controversial increase in the number of women fighting in the ranks of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
Series
Gutenberg-E
Number of Pages
350
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231135542
SKU
V9780231135542
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About Margaret Poulos
Margaret Poulos is an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Sydney. Her current research focuses on gender political aspects of the Greek student movement during the Colonel's dictatorship, and diaspora nationalism in the context of Greek-Australian political activism against the dictatorship.
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