Artikel
Public representations of women in Western Ukraine under late Stalinism : magazines, literature, and memoirs
Verfasst von:
Mitsuyoshi, Yoshie
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Stuttgart:
2006
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20 - 36 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Mitsuyoshi, Yoshie |
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| Jahr: | 2006 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This study explores the ways in which the Western Ukrainian woman was presented in women's magazines and literature to understand the various messages being communicated to women, and, then, attempts to read how women themselves, in their old age, reflected upon their experiences during these turbulent years by examining their memoirs. In Western Ukraine, the Soviet power, as the liberator of the region from the "yoke of Polish oppression" and "German occupation," launched the belated emancipation of women and committed itself to promoting women in all spheres of life, from politics to industry and collectivization. Public representation followed this line: women's magazines such as Kolhospnytsia Ukrainy and Radians 'ka zhinka emphasized the positive image of women under the Soviet regime to replace women's interwar "bourgeois" experience. Prominent female figures, such as Iryna Vil'de, Wanda Wasilewska, and Mania Kikh, served as spokeswomen in the capacity of politicians, writers, or even mothers, giving legitimacy to the Soviet presence in the region. However, emancipatory representation of women went hand in hand with a more traditional one. When the Soviet government launched a massive campaign to encourage women to have more children in the hope of offsetting the huge human losses of the war, the positive image of mothers was developed. Women's magazine presented ideal Soviet working mothers who gave birth to more children, and wartime literature metaphorically presents mothers as an embodiment of motherland that was violated by the German occupiers. Such representation was premised upon their propagation of the idea of women's inherent nurturing nature. These aspects of the public representation of women contradicted utopian notions of women's emancipation. The combination of the two very different discourses concerning the role of women was an integral facet of Western Ukrainian society since they were introduced simultaneously at this time. The Sovie | |
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