Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 260 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781350121157
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9781350121140
Series Statement:
OAPEN harvesting collection
Content:
This volume presents women warriors and hero cults from a number of cultures since the early modern period. The first truly global study of women warriors, individual chapters examine figures such as Joan of Arc in Cairo, revenging daughters in Samurai Japan, a transgender Mexican revolutionary and WWII Chinese spies. Exploring issues of violence, gender fluidity, memory and nation-building, the authors discuss how these real or imagined female figures were constructed and deployed in different national and transnational contexts. Divided into four parts, they explore how women warriors and their stories were created, considers the issue of the violent woman, discusses how these female figures were gendered, and highlights the fate of women warriors who live on. It illustrates the ways in which female fighters have figured in nation-building stories and in the ordering or re-ordering of gender politics, and gives the history of women fighters a critical edge
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350121133
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Women Warriors and National Heroes: Global Perspectives (Veranstaltung : 2018 : Toronto) Women warriors and national heroes London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020 ISBN 9781350121133
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Nationalheldin
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Kriegerin
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Nationalismus
;
Geschichte
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Electronic books
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Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.5040/9781350140301
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