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Working Memory - Women and Work in World War II (Paperback)
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Working Memory - Women and Work in World War II (Paperback)
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Working Memory: Women and Work in World War II speaks to the work
women did during the war: the labour of survival, resistance, and
collaboration, and the labour of recording, representing, and
memorializing these wartime experiences. The contributors follow
their subjects' tracks and deepen our understanding of the
experiences from the imprints left behind. These efforts are a part
of the making of history, and when the process is as personal as
many of our contributors' research has been, it is also the working
of memory. The implication here is that memory is intimate, and
that the layering of narrative fragments that recovery involves
brings us in touching distance to ourselves. These are not the
stories of the brave little woman at home; they are stories of the
woman who calculated the main chance and took up with the Nazi
soldier, or who eagerly dropped the apron at the door and picked up
a paintbrush, or who brazenly bargained for her life and her
mother's with the most feared of tyrants. These are stories of
courage and sometimes of compromise - not the courage of bravado
and hype and big guns, but rather the courage of hard choices and
sacrifices that make sense of the life given, even when that life
seems only madness. Working Memory brings scholarly attention to
the roles of women in World War II that have been hidden, masked,
undervalued, or forgotten.
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