Gender Politics and Mass Dictatorship: Global Perspectives

By Jie-Hyun Lim

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Notes on the Contributors Series Introduction: Mapping Mass Dictatorship: Towards a Transnational History of Twentieth Century Dictatorship; J-H.Lim PART I: COMPARATIVE CONTEXTS Introduction: Meandering Between Self-empowerment and Self-mobilisation; K.Petrone & J-H.Lim Mass Dictatorship and Gender Politics: Is the Outcome Predictable?; B.Einhorn Consensus Formation, Race and Gender in Histories of National Socialist Germany; C.Koonz PART II: INTERWAR GENDER NEGOTIATIONS Little Prefects: The Embodiment of Masculinity in Interwar Britain; S.Kim Between Fascism and Feminism: Women Activists of the British Union of Fascists; W.Yeom Between Exploitation and Empowerment: Soviet Women Negotiate Stalinism; K.Petrone Male Bodies: Well Trained Muscles or Beer Bellies? From the 'Master race' in Nazism to the Ruling Class in East Germany; A.L?dtke PART III: GENDER AND EMPIRE IN COLONIAL DICTATORSHIPS The State, Family and 'Womanhood' in Colonial Korea: 'Public' Women and the Contradictions of the Total Mobilisation Program; K.H.Kim Mothers of the Empire: Military Conscription and Mobilisation in Late Colonial Korea; M.Kim 'Taming Soldiers': The Gender Politics of Japanese Soldiers in Total War; Y.Ahn PART IV: POSTWAR AUTHORITARIANISMS Sex in Big-Character Posters from China's Cultural Revolution: Gendering the Class Enemy; M.Schoenhals The Discourses of the Modernisation Project in South Korea and its Gender Politics; E.Kim From Welfare State to Self-welfare: Everyday Opposition among Female Textile-Workers in L?d?, 1971-81; M.Mazurek Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349317764
• ISBN13: 9781349317769
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"