Experiences of women at war: Servicewomen during WWII and in the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Conflict in Donbas

Khromeychuk, Olesya (2018) Experiences of women at war: Servicewomen during WWII and in the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Conflict in Donbas. Baltic Worlds, 4. pp. 58-70. ISSN 2000-2955

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Abstract

This paper examines women’s contribution to war and the perceptions of that contribution by comparing experiences of women in the Red Army during the Second World War and in the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the conflict in the Donbas region. Through comparative analysis, the paper argues that in both cases structural gender discrimination was ingrained in the military, which accepted women’s contribution to war in times of need, but treated that contribution as subsidiary, thereby distorting men’s and women’s experiences of warfare and facilitating the instrumentalized militarization of women.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 5 - gender equality,sdg 16 - peace, justice and strong institutions ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/gender_equality
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of History
Related URLs:	http://balticworlds.com/experiences-of-w...
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	18 Jan 2018 11:30
Last Modified:	06 Feb 2025 07:33
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/65991
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