Gender Politics and Mass Dictatorship Global Perspectives [Hardcover]

Unique in comparative scope, this volume brings together global scholarship on gender. Thirteen international experts explore the gendered mobilization of men and women in twentieth century European and Asian mass dictatorships and colonial empires, examining both mobilization 'from above' and self-empowerment 'from below'.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 IndexYONSON AHN formerly Research Fellow, East Asian Institute, University of Leipló£