Gender Politics and Mass Dictatorship: Global Perspectives

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Series Introduction: Mapping Mass Dictatorship: Towards a Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Dictatorship....Pages 1-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Introduction: Meandering between Self-empowerment and Self-mobilisation....Pages 25-33
Mass Dictatorship and Gender Politics: Is the Outcome Predictable?....Pages 34-62
A Tributary and a Mainstream: Gender, Public Memory and the Historiography of Nazi Germany....Pages 63-82
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Little Prefects: The Embodiment of Masculinity in Interwar Britain....Pages 85-106
Between Fascism and Feminism: Women Activists of the British Union of Fascists....Pages 107-124
Between Exploitation and Empowerment: Soviet Women Negotiate Stalinism....Pages 125-141
Male Bodies: Well-Trained Muscles or Beer Bellies? From the ‘Master Race’ in Nazism to the Ruling Class in East Germany....Pages 142-168
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
The State, Family and ‘Womanhood’ in Colonial Korea: ‘Public’ Women and the Contradictions of the Total Mobilisation Programme....Pages 171-192
Mothers of the Empire: Military Conscription and Mobilisation in Late Colonial Korea....Pages 193-212
‘Taming Soldiers’: The Gender Politics of Japanese Soldiers in Total War....Pages 213-234
Front Matter....Pages 235-235
Sex in Big-Character Posters from China’s Cultural Revolution: Gendering the Class Enemy....Pages 237-257
The Discourses of the Modernisation Project in South Korea and Its Gender Politics....Pages 258-277
From Welfare State to Self-Welfare: Everyday Opposition among Female Textile Workers in Łódź, 1971–81....Pages 278-300
Back Matter....Pages 301-305