Lim Jie-Hyun, Petrone Karen (eds.) Gender Politics and Mass Dictatorship. Global Perspectives

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 319 p. — (Mass Dictatorship in the Twentieth Century) — ISBN-10: 1349317764; ISBN-13: 978-1349317769.Unique in comparative scope, this volume brings together global scholarship on gender. Thirteen international experts explore the gendered mobilization of men and women in twentieth century European and Asian mass dictatorships and colonial empires, examining both mobilization 'from above' and self-empowerment 'from below'.Series Introduction: Mapping Mass Dictatorship: Towards a Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Dictatorship. Jie-Hyun LimComparative ContextsIntroduction: Meandering between Self-empowerment and Self-mobilisation. Karen Petrone and Jie-Hyun Lim
Mass Dictatorship and Gender Politics: Is the Outcome Predictable? Barbara Einhorn
A Tributary and a Mainstream: Gender, Public Memory and the Historiography of Nazi Germany. Claudia KoonzInterwar Gender NegotiationsLittle Prefects: The Embodiment of Masculinity in Interwar Britain. Sangsoo Kim
Between Fascism and Feminism: Women Activists of the British Union of Fascists. Woonok Yeom
Between Exploitation and Empowerment: Soviet Women Negotiate Stalinism. Karen Petrone
Male Bodies: Well-Trained Muscles or Beer Bellies? From the ‘Master Race’ in Nazism to the Ruling Class in East Germany. Alf LüdtkeGender and Empire in Colonial DictatorshipsThe State, Family and ‘Womanhood’ in Colonial Korea: ‘Public’ Women and the Contradictions of the Total Mobilisation Programme. Kyu Hyun Kim
Mothers of the Empire: Military Conscription and Mobilisation in Late Colonial Korea. Michael Kim
‘Taming Soldiers’: The Gender Politics of Japanese Soldiers in Total War. Yonson AhnPost-War AuthoritarianismsSex in Big-Character Posters from China’s Cultural Revolution: Gendering the Class Enemy. Michael Schoenhals
The Discourses of the Modernisation Project in South Korea and Its Gender Politics. Eun-shil Kim
From Welfare State to Self-Welfare: Everyday Opposition among Female Textile Workers in Łód´z, 1971–81. Małgorzata Mazurek