Gender Politics and Mass Dictatorship: Global Perspectives (Mass Dictatorship in the 20th Century)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Notes on Contributors......Page 12
Series Introduction: Mapping Mass Dictatorship: Towards a Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Dictatorship......Page 16
Part I: Comparative Contexts......Page 38
1 Introduction: Meandering between Self-empowerment and Self-mobilisation......Page 40
2 Mass Dictatorship and Gender Politics: Is the Outcome Predictable?......Page 49
3 A Tributary and a Mainstream: Gender, Public Memory and the Historiography of Nazi Germany......Page 78
Part II: Interwar Gender Negotiations......Page 98
4 Little Prefects: The Embodiment of Masculinity in Interwar Britain......Page 100
5 Between Fascism and Feminism: Women Activists of the British Union of Fascists......Page 122
6 Between Exploitation and Empowerment: Soviet Women Negotiate Stalinism......Page 140
7 Male Bodies: Well-Trained Muscles or Beer Bellies? From the ‘Master Race’ in Nazism to the Ruling Class in East Germany......Page 157
Part III: Gender and Empire in Colonial Dictatorships......Page 184
8 The State, Family and ‘Womanhood’ in Colonial Korea: ‘Public’ Women and the Contradictions of the Total Mobilisation Programme......Page 186
9 Mothers of the Empire: Military Conscription and Mobilisation in Late Colonial Korea......Page 208
10 ‘Taming Soldiers’: The Gender Politics of Japanese Soldiers in Total War......Page 228
Part IV: Post-War Authoritarianisms......Page 250
11 Sex in Big-Character Posters from China’s Cultural Revolution: Gendering the Class Enemy......Page 252
12 The Discourses of the Modernisation Project in South Korea and Its Gender Politics......Page 273
13 From Welfare State to Self-Welfare: Everyday Opposition among Female Textile Workers in Łódź, 1971–81......Page 293
Index......Page 316