New publication "Women at the Front Line"

[Elena Gapova]

Sorry. That was meant for Women in Slavic Studies. As it got here anyway,
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“Zhenshchiny Belarusi: istoriya v povsednevnosti” Calendar Series
                         Women of Belarus: a Social History


?alendar-2005: Zhenshchiny na linii fronta (WOMEN AT THE FRONT LINE)
Published
Editor: Elena Gapova. Archival search, interviews: Elena Khloptseva, Natal’
ya Shcherbina.

European Humanities University, 2004.



“Zhenshchiny na linii fronta” pursues the topic not too popular with
military historians: everyday life during WWII at the front, in the rear, or
in the occupied Belarusian/Soviet territories. How did people live day after
day in Belarus, which was occupied for three years? Did children go to
school? Were there hospitals, or newspapers? How did partisans cook food?
What was the women’s life like, or the “women’s chores”? What images did
Soviet posters promote? And how did German propaganda paint the life of
those who had been taken to the Reich as workers?



The calendar includes WWII photos, posters, maps, and personal letters,
accompanied by excerpts from interviews collected during the “Women, War and
Memory” project. “Please, recall, - young women-researchers asked the
elderly people, - how you lived back then. Talk to us, contact us, find the
courage within yourself to tell us about this. Say your words for History.
Or – otherwise - no one will ever find out...» This evidence does not
usually get into encyclopedias of military history. But this, in fact, IS
History.



About the series:

In 2001, Centre for Gender Studies at EHU launched a series of historic
calendars: “Zhenshchiny Belarusi: istoriya v povsednevnosti” (Women of
Belarus: A Social History). The publication was pushed forward by the idea
to “imagine” (or reconstruct?) a history of women – as part of a bigger
History – in the Belarusian-Lithuanian ethnic territories, and to
 “visualize” it with the artifacts of the time: old posters and cartoons,
photos from museums or family albums, or unpublished archival documents. The
women there identified themselves as Polish, Russian, Jewish or Tatar, and,
rarely, as Belarusian. Thus, calendars cut across centuries, classes,
estates and ethnic groups in the lands which historically were incorporated
into various states (the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Russian Empire, and the
USSR), and in a sense, the series reconstructs their histories as well.



Every calendar results from a research project. It starts with the “theme”,
or an idea, followed by the search in archives, museums, family albums, and
private collections by historians, archival workers or activists of ethnic
cultural societies. No single institution – no museum, no archive, and no
private collection – exhibits these materials and documents as a complete
collection. A lot of artifacts are “discovered” and become recognized as
“historical facts” for the first time. The designer looks for the visual
concept to render the idea of the issue best. Finally, texts (explanations,
citations from documents and interviews) that accompany the visual materials
are prepared according to the “new” understanding of what is a “historical
fact” and what can be seen as “history”.





Previous issues (to have a glimpse, go to:
http://gender.ehu.by/ru/strip.php?id=525 ):



2004: Zhenshchiny Belarusi: Statusy i classy (Women of Belarus:  Estates and
Classes)

(women’s occupations and ethnicity at the turn of the century in photos:
teachers, nurses, telegraphists, nuns and even ballerinas). Russian with
English abstracts.

2003: Zhenshchiny Belarusi: Na lichnom fronte (Women of Belarus:  At the
Personal Front)

(building the “new world” and a “new women” of the early Soviet state:
posters, authentic magazine cartoons and texts on gender equality of the
1920s). Russian and English.

2002:  Zhenshchiny Belarusi: (Women of Belarus: Creators of Culture)

(works by women-artists – Polish, Belarusian, Jewish, or Tatar – ranging
from classical portraits of the 18th century to contemporary experimental
art with untraditional materials). Russian with English abstracts.

2001:  Zhanchyny Belarusi: Shlyahi da svabody (Women of Belarus: Roads to
Freedom)

 (patrons, poets, revolutionaries –  those who were exiled, imprisoned, and
persecuted...). Belarusian.



The calendars are available from EastView Publications at
http://www.eastview.com/list_advanced_book.asp ;

if the latest issue is not in the catalogue yet, please, e-mail your order
to: gender at ehu.by









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