Ayse Gul Altinay is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sabanci University and author of The Myth of the Military-Nation and co-author of The Grandchildren: The Hidden Legacy of Lost Armenians in Turkey.
Andrea Peto is a professor in the Department of Gender Studies at the Central European University, Hungary and author of Women in Hungarian Politics, 1945-1951.
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword, (Cynthia Enloe)
Introduction: 'Uncomfortable Connections: Gender, Memory, War', (Ayse Gul Altinay and Andrea Petoe)
Part I Sexual Violence: Silence, Narration, Resistance
Commentary: 'Disassemble the Unthinkable to the Unthought': Sexual Violence Narrated, (Andrea Petoe)
1. The Historicity of Denial: Sexual Violence Against Jewish Women during the War of Annihilation, 1941-1945, (Regina Muhlhauser)
2. Between Silence and Narration: European and Asian Women on War Brutalities in Japanese-Occupied Territories, (Felicia Yap)
3. The Female and Political Body in Pain: Sexual Torture and Gendered Trauma during the Greek Military Dictatorship (1967-1974), (Katherine Stefatos)
4. Silencing Sexual Violence and Vulnerability: Women's Narratives of Incarceration during the 1980-1983 Military Junta in Turkey, (Burge Abiral)
Part II Gendering Memories of War, Soldiering and Resistance
Commentary: Women's Memories of Soldiering: An Intersectionality Perspective, (Orna Sasson-Levy)
5. Militarizing the Nation: Gender Politics of the Warsaw Uprising, (Weronika Grebalska)
6. The Italian Civil War in the Memoirs of Female Fascist Soldiers, (Gianluca Schiavo)
7. We Left Our Skirts to Men as We Went to the Front: The Participation of Abkhazian Women from Turkey in the Abkhazian War, (Setenay Nil Dogan)
8. Militarized US Women from the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: Citizenship, Homelessness, and the Construction of Public Memory in a Time of War, (Stephanie E. Yuhl)
Part III Fictionalizing and Visualizing Gendered Memories
Commentary: Unsettling Accounts: Fictionalizing and Visualizing Memories of War, (Banu Karaca)
9. Women's Memory of the Spanish Civil War: The Power of Words, (Sophie Milquet)
10. Forgotten Perpetrators: Photographs of Female Perpetrators After World War II, (Andrea Petoe)
11. Testimonies of War and Love: The Work of Witnessing Imagination in Eve Ensler's Play Necessary Targets and Jasmila Zbanic's Film Grbavica, (Kornelia Slavova)
12. Conversations in Silence: Ceramic Installations Shaping the Visual and Political Imagination of Gendered Tsunami and Conflict Reconstruction Landscapes in Aceh, (Marjaana Jauhola)
Part IV Feminist Reimaginings
Commentary: Interrogating Memory and Evidence: An Intersectional Feminist Perspective, (Arlene Avakian)
13. Narrating Women's Bodies: Storying Silences and Secrets in the Aftermath of Genocide, (Hourig Attarian)
14. Women Living and Re-Living Armed Conflict: Exploring a Methodology for Spanning Time and Place, (Cynthia Cockburn)