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During World War II, movements organized to resist Nazi occupation
grew throughout Europe. In Greece the resistance movement also
involved an unprecedented opportunity for social and political
change initiated by the largest organization, the National
Liberation Front or EAM. Key leaders envisioned postwar Greece as a
popular democracy structured to allow a range of new voices to be
heard. Believing gender equality to be one of the hallmarks of
modernity, they attempted to expand the category of "national
citizen" to include women as well as men. Janet Hart describes,
often in the words of the Greek women involved, how lives were
transformed by active participation in the resistance against the
Nazis and in the anticommunist aftermath of the war. Political
action proved exhilarating for women who had grown up in a prewar
world of narrowly constricted gender roles. Hart has interviewed
many survivors, and their testimony transcends local boundaries to
capture the experience of emancipation. New Voices in the Nation
explores the historical memory of social transformation, finding in
personal narrative a key to new conceptions of societal change. The
author places the resistance movement in an international context
by examining how the struggle to promote modern political culture
among ordinary people took shape on the ground in the course of the
battle against conquering Axis forces. Hart uses insights gleaned
from former partisans, Italian leader and political philosopher
Antonio Gramsci, histories of black consciousness, and her own
perceptions as an African American to explore topics of compelling
current concern: the relation between gender and political action,
the role ofnationalism in the raising of gender-based
consciousness, and the ways in which social movements, by
challenging the political status quo, may ultimately find
themselves targeted as threats to state equilibrium.
During World War II, movements organized to resist Nazi occupation
grew throughout Europe. In Greece the resistance movement also
involved an unprecedented opportunity for social and political
change initiated by the largest organization, the National
Liberation Front or EAM. Key leaders envisioned postwar Greece as a
popular democracy structured to allow a range of new voices to be
heard. Believing gender equality to be one of the hallmarks of
modernity, they attempted to expand the category of "national
citizen" to include women as well as men. Janet Hart describes,
often in the words of the Greek women involved, how lives were
transformed by active participation in the resistance against the
Nazis and in the anticommunist aftermath of the war. Political
action proved exhilarating for women who had grown up in a prewar
world of narrowly constricted gender roles. Hart has interviewed
many survivors, and their testimony transcends local boundaries to
capture the experience of emancipation. New Voices in the Nation
explores the historical memory of social transformation, finding in
personal narrative a key to new conceptions of societal change. The
author places the resistance movement in an international context
by examining how the struggle to promote modern political culture
among ordinary people took shape on the ground in the course of the
battle against conquering Axis forces. Hart uses insights gleaned
from former partisans, Italian leader and political philosopher
Antonio Gramsci, histories of black consciousness, and her own
perceptions as an African American to explore topics of compelling
current concern: the relation between gender and political action,
the role ofnationalism in the raising of gender-based
consciousness, and the ways in which social movements, by
challenging the political status quo, may ultimately find
themselves targeted as threats to state equilibrium.
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