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Semester | fall semester 2022 |
Course frequency | Once only |
Lecturers | Marta Havryshko (marta.havryshko@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
Content | The course focuses on the intersections between gender and wars, genocides, violence, militarism, and its aftermath on the territory of contemporary Ukraine in the XX-XXI century in a broad comparative historical perspective. The emphasis is placed on understanding gender(ed) norms and expectations in relation to diverse experiences and roles, differential patterns of agency and victimhood, wartime sexual/ized violence, and consequences for men and women of conflict resolution. The course also builds familiarity with representations of gender, war, and violence in the media, history, literature, and the arts. The ultimate goal of this course is to demonstrate how the discourses and enactment of war, genocide, and violence are influenced by societal constructions of gender throughout history to the present. For that purpose, the course is organized both chronologically and thematically. It will concentrate on the gendered dimensions of the First World War; the Holodomor, the Second World War, the Holocaust, Stalin's terror, the anti-Soviet armed resistance, and ongoing Russia's war on Ukraine. It will explore the role of gender in militarization processes, recruitment into armed groups, military culture, experiences of service, and popular cultural representations of militaries. These questions will be analyzed using select case studies: regular armies (Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, Red Army, Ukrainian Armed Forces) and guerilla armies (Soviet partisans, Ukrainian Insurgent Army). |
Bibliography | Havryshko, M. (2021). "Listening to Women's Voices: Jewish Rape Survivors' Testimonies in Soviet War Crimes Trials," If this is a Woman. Studies on Women and Gender in the Holocaust, eds. D. Nešťáková, K. Grosse-Sommer, B. Klacsmann (Boston: Academic Studies Press), 221-242. Khromeychuk, O. (2018). "Militarizing Women in the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement from the 1930s to the 1950s." Aspasia, 12(1): 1-34. Kis, O. (2013). "Defying Death: Women's Experience of the Holodomor, 1932-1933." Aspasia, 7(1): 42-67. Krylova, A. (2010). Soviet Women in Combat: A History of Violence on the Eastern Front. (Cambridge). Petrenko, O. (2018). Unter Männern. Frauen im ukrainischen nationalistischen Untergrund 1929-1954. (Paderborn). Phillips, S. D. (2014). “The Women’s Squad in Ukraine’s Protests: Feminism, Nationalism, and Militarism on the Maidan.” American Ethnologist, 41 (3): 414–26. Rubchak, M. J. (2014). "A Fiery Euromaidan Ignites a Feminist Voice." Perspectives on Europe, 44(2): 82–87. Sjoberg, L., Gentru, C. E. (2008). Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women's Violence in Global Politics. (London: Zed Books). |
Comments | Die Übung findet in englischer Sprache statt. |
Admission requirements | Studierende der Geschichte aller Studienstufen sowie Studierende anderer Studienfächer, in deren Module die Übung verknüpft ist. Bei Überbelegung werden Studierende der Geschichte bevorzugt zugelassen. |
Language of instruction | English |
Use of digital media | No specific media used |
Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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wöchentlich | Wednesday | 14.15-16.00 | Departement Geschichte, Seminarraum 2 |
Modules |
Electives Bachelor Jewish Studies: Recommendations (Bachelor's degree subject: Jewish Studies) Modul: Archive / Medien / Theorien (Bachelor's degree subject: History) Modul: Areas: Osteuropa (Master's degree program: European History in Global Perspective) Modul: Basis Geschichte: Ostmitteleuropa (Bachelor's degree program: Eastern European Studies) Modul: Basis Geschichte: Russland / Sowjetunion (Bachelor's degree program: Eastern European Studies) Modul: Europäisierung und Globalisierung (Master's Studies: European Global Studies) Modul: Geschichte Russlands und der Sowjetunion (Master's degree subject: East European History) Modul: Gesellschaft in Osteuropa (Bachelor's degree subject: Eastern European Cultures) Modul: Gesellschaft in Osteuropa (Bachelor's degree program: Eastern European Studies) Modul: Spezialisierung «Geschichte und Polititsche Bildung» (Master's Studies: Subject-Specific Teaching and Learning) Modul: Themenfelder der Geschlechterforschung (Bachelor's degree subject: Gender Studies) Modul: Vertiefung Geschichte (Bachelor's degree subject: Jewish Studies) Modul: Vertiefung Themenfelder der Geschlechterforschung (Master's degree subject: Gender Studies) Vertiefungsmodul Global Europe: Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (Master's Studies: European Global Studies) Wahlbereich Master Geschichte: Empfehlungen (Master's degree subject: History) |
Assessment format | continuous assessment |
Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
Scale | Pass / Fail |
Repeated registration | no repetition |
Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
Offered by | Departement Geschichte |