Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars

Higonnet, Margaret R.; Jensen, Jane S.; Michel, Sonya; Weitz, Margaret Collins

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“…The third layer of power explored by participant two is the role of women as informants. The fact that women have historically been viewed as good spies in conflicts and world wars is well established (see Amrane-Minne and Abu-Haidar 1999;Higonnet, Jenson, Michel and Weitz 1987). Women's ability to do this work well is based on gender stereotypes of women as apolitical, not threatening and generally invisible, thus making it easier for them to gather information.…”

Section: Reclaiming Agencymentioning

confidence: 99%

1 - Governing Gender: Violent Extremism in Northern Nigeria

Okech¹

2021

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This article draws on a qualitative study piloted in Maiduguri, Northern Nigeria, to unpack the gender logics that shape why women join Boko Haram, their roles, how they are perceived by their communities on their return and how these dynamics inform the ‘deradicalisation’ programmes of the Nigerian government and civil society organisations. The study reveals that the absence of a gender power analysis reproduces the dominant tropes evident in radicalisation theories and programmes about who is radicalised and why, thus limiting a holistic response to the factors that drive association with Boko Haram in Northern Nigeria. The article points to the opportunities that a more nuanced reading of women’s experiences of associating with armed groups and their return to their communities offers to re-conceptualising integration programmes. Awino Okech, SOAS, University of London. Email: ao21@soas.ac.uk

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Section: Reclaiming Agencymentioning

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1 - Governing Gender: Violent Extremism in Northern Nigeria

Okech¹

2021

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“…осіб 16 . Приблизно таку саму кількість британок задіяли у цивільній обороні, ополченні, королівському спостережницькому корпусі та жіночій землеробській армії 17 . Для порівняння, у роки Першої світової війни кількість жінок у допоміжних службах становила 70 тис.…”

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The Problem of Women’s Service in the British Army During World War II: An Analysis of W.Churchill’s Public Discourse

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Hurzhii²

2021

UHJ

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The aim of this article is to analyse Winston Churchill's public discourse in the 1930s and 1940s on the recruitment of women into the army. Its result will not only supplement his biography, but also make it possible to find out, firstly, how he, as a media personality, formed public discourse, and secondly, what influence as the head of government, a person endowed with broad powers, he influenced British gender regime in the 1940s. The research methodology is based on the principles of historicism and multifactoriality. The authors used both general scientific (analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, generalization) and special-historical (critical analysis of sources, retrospective, historical-comparative) research methods, as well as a gender approach. The scientific novelty. In the paper W.Churchill's attitude to the service of women in the army for the first time is the subject of the study. This problem was briefly explored in the Western historiography, where there are still many dubious statements about it, based on a one-sided study of available sources. Conclusions. Based on the analysis of Churchill's public statements and published works, as well as his government's main actions in the context of women's service, the authors concluded that he was critical on official permission for them to use arms and fight. Churchill's public discourse on women serving in the army was within the patriarchal view of them as weak and peaceful creatures who could not and, most importantly, should not compete with the male half of the population. Actively using the work of women in the auxiliary services during the war, the politician allowed himself tactless remarks addressed to them after the end of hostilities.

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“…The same applies to the relations of Wehrmacht members to "other" women in the occupied territories during World War II (e.g., Müller 2003;Mühlhäuser 2010Mühlhäuser , 2017aRöger 2014Röger , 2015. Additionally, many historians have presented studies dealing with intimate encounters at the front (e.g., Higonnet et al 1987;Drolshagen 1998;Virgili 2002;Warring 2006;Muth 2008;Heidenreich 2017;Fahnenbruck 2018), whilst others have concentrated on the "folk-political" (volkstumspolitisch) effects on marriage policies in wartime (Heinemann 2003;Kundrus 2009;Strippel 2011;Nichols 2015). This thematic focus points to the importance of studying intimate relations, especially connections to larger social developments (Steber and Gotto 2014;Harvey et al 2019).…”

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Shifting Racial Boundaries and Their Limits. German Women, Non-European Men, and the Negotiation of Sexuality and Intimacy in Nazi Germany

Lorke

2020

Genealogy

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This essay examines the cultural, ethnic, and “racial” boundaries of the National Socialist “Volksgemeinschaft” based on planned, failed, and completed marriages between German women and non-European men in the early twentieth century. From evidence in the relevant files from the Federal Archives and the Political Archive of the Federal Foreign Office, this essay discusses male partners from various countries of origin as examples of the role of the state in racially mixed unions. The reactions of the institutional actors and the couples themselves demonstrated the surprising ambivalence of National Socialist racial policy due to political and diplomatic requirements.

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Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars

Cited by 15 publications

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1 - Governing Gender: Violent Extremism in Northern Nigeria

1 - Governing Gender: Violent Extremism in Northern Nigeria

The Problem of Women’s Service in the British Army During World War II: An Analysis of W.Churchill’s Public Discourse

Shifting Racial Boundaries and Their Limits. German Women, Non-European Men, and the Negotiation of Sexuality and Intimacy in Nazi Germany

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