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11 produkter
D-Day Through French Eyes
Normandy 1944
Inbunden, 2014
244 kr
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Like big black umbrellas, they rain down on the fields across the way, and then disappear behind the black line of the hedges. Silent parachutes dotting the night sky - that's how one woman in Normandy in June of 1944 learned that the D-Day invasion was under way. Though they yearned for …
Civilization without Sexes
Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917-1927
Häftad, 1994
331 kr
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In the decade following World War I, newly blurred boundaries between male and female created fears among the French that theirs was becoming a civilization without sexes. This new gender confusion became a central metaphor for the War's impact on French culture and led to a marked increase in …
Disruptive Acts
The New Woman in Fin-de-Siecle France
Inbunden, 2002
875 kr
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In fin-de-siecle France, politics were in an uproar, and gender roles blurred as never before. Into this maelstrom stepped the "new women", a group of primarily urban middle-class French women who became the objects of intense public scrutiny. Some remained single, some entered nontraditional …
Disruptive Acts
The New Woman in Fin-de-Siecle France
Häftad, 2005
314 kr
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In fin-de-siècle France, politics were in an uproar, and gender roles blurred as never before. Into this maelstrom stepped the "new women," a group of primarily urban, middle-class French women who became the objects of intense public scrutiny. Some remained single, some entered nontraditional …
Civilization without Sexes
Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917-1927
E-bok, 2009
722 kr
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In the raucous decade following World War I, newly blurred boundaries between male and female created fears among the French that theirs was becoming a civilization without sexes. This new gender confusion became a central metaphor for the War''s impact on French culture and led to a marked …
Sheer Misery
Soldiers in Battle in WWII
Inbunden, 2021
243 kr
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Marching across occupied France in 1944, American GI Leroy Stewart had neither death nor glory on his mind: he was worried about his underwear. “I ran into a new problem when we walked,” Stewart wrote, “the shorts and I didn’t get along. They would crawl up on me all the time.” Complaints of …
D-Day Through French Eyes
Normandy 1944
Häftad, 2022
226 kr
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A gripping account of what it was like to be in the midst of the Norman Invasion on D-Day and immediately afterward. Silent parachutes dotting the night sky—that’s how one woman in Normandy in June 1944 learned that the D-Day invasion was underway. Though they yearned for liberation, the people of …
What Soldiers Do
Sex and the American GI in World War II France
Inbunden, 2013
287 kr
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How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? Do you appeal to their bonds with their fellow soldiers, their patriotism, their desire to end tyranny and mass murder? Certainly - but if you're the US Army in 1944, you also try another tack: you dangle …
What Soldiers Do
Sex and the American GI in World War II France
Häftad, 2014
234 kr
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What Soldiers Do presents a devastating new perspective on the Greatest Generation and the liberation of France, one in which the US military use the lure of easy, sexually available French women to sell soldiers on the invasion, thus unleashing a "tsunami of male lust" among the war-weary GIs. The …
Puro sufrimiento
La vida cotidiana de los soldados en la Segunda Guerra Mundial
E-bok, 2023
85 kr
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En plena marcha victoriosa de su regimiento de infantería por territorio de Francia, en 1944, el soldado Leroy Stewart no pensaba en la gloria ni en la muerte. Estaba preocupado por su ropa interior: "Cuando empezamos a caminar, tuve un problema nuevo: los calzoncillos me incomodaban. Se me subían …
Civilization without Sexes
Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917-1927
Inbunden, 1994
892 kr
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In the decade following World War I, newly blurred boundaries between male and female created fears among the French that theirs was becoming a civilization without sexes. This new gender confusion became a central metaphor for the War's impact on French culture and led to a marked increase in …
