Fighting Words and Images

• Author : Stephan Jaeger,Elena Viktorovna Baraban,Adam Muller
• Publisher : University of Toronto Press
• Release : 01 January 2012

"Fighting Words and Images is the first comprehensive interdisciplinary and theoretical analysis of war representations across time periods from Classical Antiquity to the present day and across languages, cultures, and media including print, painting, sculpture, architecture, and photography. Featuring contributions from across the humanities and social sciences, Fighting Words and Images is organized into four thematically consistent, analytically rigourous sections that discuss ways to overcome the conceptual challenges associated with theorizing war representation. This collection creatively and insightfully explains the

• Author : Jessica Datema,Manya Steinkoler
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 26 April 2019

Revisioning War Trauma in Cinema: Uncoming Communities is timely, participating in the debate concerning trauma and representation, and offers a Lacanian augmentation to current understanding. The book considers and engages with mid-century thinking on the issue of disaster and community proposing a way forward through artistic invention.

• Author : Atina Grossmann
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release : 30 August 2009

Tells the story of Jewish survivors inside and outside the displaced-persons camps of the American zone as they built families and reconstructed identities while awaiting emigration to Palestine or the United States. Examines how Germans and Jews interacted and competed for Allied favor, benefits, and victim status, and how they sought to restore normality-- in work, in their relationships, and in their everyday encounters.

• Author : Karen Hagemann,Jean Helen Quataert
• Publisher : Berghahn Books
• Release : 27 January 2023

To provide a critical overview in a comparative German-American perspective is the main aim of this volume, which brings together experts from both sides of the Atlantic. Through case studies, it demonstrates the extraordinary power of the gender perspective to challenge existing interpretations and rewrite mainstream arguments.

• Author : Fiona Montgomery,Christine Collette
• Publisher : Psychology Press
• Release : 27 January 2023

The European Women's History Reader is a fascinating collection of seminal articles and extracts, exploring the social, economic, religious and political history of women across Europe since the late eighteenth century. This ambitious volume is arranged into four chronological sections all with their own introductions, which provide context for the chapters that follow. The collection also includes a useful general introduction, which makes the articles accessible to students and helps to define this increasingly important area of study.

• Author : Klaus Martens
• Publisher : Königshausen & Neumann
• Release : 27 January 2023

• Author : Anonymous
• Publisher : Picador
• Release : 28 February 2017

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. "With bald honesty and brutal lyricism" (Elle), the anonymous author depicts her fellow Berliners in all their humanity, as well as their cravenness, corrupted first by hunger and then by the Russians. "Spare and unpredictable, minutely observed and utterly free of self-pity" (The Plain

• Author : Nicole Dombrowski
• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
• Release : 27 January 1999

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

• Author : Anonymous
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 25 January 2018

This is a devastating book. It is matter-of-fact, makes no attempt to score political points, does not attempt to solicit sympathy for its protagonist and yet is among the most chilling indictments of war I have ever read. Everybody, in particular every woman ought to read it' - Arundhati Roy 'One of the most important personal accounts ever written about the effects of war and defeat' - Antony Beevor Between April 20th and June 22nd 1945 the anonymous author of A

• Author : Despina Stratigakos
• Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
• Release : 27 January 2023

"Despina Stratigakos is assistant professor of architecture at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York."--BOOK JACKET.

• Author : Karen Engle
• Publisher : Stanford University Press
• Release : 07 April 2020

Contemporary feminist advocacy in human rights, international criminal law, and peace and security is gripped by the issue of sexual violence in conflict. But it hasn't always been this way. Analyzing feminist international legal and political work over the past three decades, Karen Engle argues that it was not inevitable that sexual violence in conflict would become such a prominent issue. Engle reveals that as feminists from around the world began to pay an enormous amount of attention to sexual

• Author : Joshua Parker
• Publisher : BRILL
• Release : 17 March 2016

This book traces the ways Berlin has been narrated across three centuries by some 100 authors. It presents a composite landscape not only of the German capital, but of shifting subtexts in American society.

• Author : Eithne Dowds
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 23 January 2020

This work introduces and further develops the feminist strategy of 'norm transfer': the proposal that feminist informed standards created at the level of international criminal law make their way into domestic contexts. Situating this strategy within the complementarity regime of the International Criminal Court (ICC), it is argued that there is an opportunity for dialogue and debate around the contested aspects of international norms as opposed to uncritical acceptance. The book uses the crime of rape as a case study

• Author : Sinclair McKay
• Publisher : Penguin UK
• Release : 26 May 2022

The Sunday Times-bestselling author of Dresden returns with a monumental biography of the city that defined the twentieth century - Berlin 'I loved this book . . . apposite and wise . . . To anyone who knows Berlin a little and is fascinated by it, but would like to understand it better, this is a wonderful aid' David Aaronovitch, The Times Throughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre of a convulsing world. This history is often viewed as separate acts: the suffering of

• Author : Rough Guides
• Publisher : Rough Guides UK
• Release : 01 March 2017

Thoroughly researched and updated, the eleventh edition of The Rough Guide to Berlin is the ultimate travel guide to one of Europe's most dynamic, restless and ever-changing cities. Blending stunning photography with full-colour maps and more listings and information than ever before, The Rough Guide to Berlin offers practical advice on all the best things to see and do in Berlin - from iconic sights such as the Reichstag, Brandenburg Gate and the world-class museums of Museum Island to expanded