Product Description: In the years after the fall of communist governments in Central, Eastern, and South- eastern Europe (CESEE), a flood of memoir literature began to fill bookstores around the region. The turn to autobiography and personal narrative inspired the theme section in this volume of Aspasia: women's auto-biographical writing and correspondence...read more

Product Description: Volume 4, 2010 Gender, the Body, and Sexuality Women and War The first section on 'Gender, the Body, and Sexuality' explores issues that have been of fundamental importance to women's and gender studies since the 1970s. The second section brings together work on women and war, as well as contributions that focus on media representation of women during times of war with special attention paid to the Second World War...read more

Product Description: This original study discusses the role of women in developing and dispersing caring power and, vice-versa, the role of caring power in constituting 'women' as modern social subjects, processes which began around 1800. Based on the historian-/philosopher Foucault's concept of pastoral power, "caring power" also takes into account the vital role played by gender...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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