Women and Gender in Postwar Europe

This collaborative project is a most welcome addition to the scholarship on European history in the twentieth century, as well as to gender history and the history of the Cold War... The volume is an excellent collection for undergraduate audiences. The introduction offers an elegant and brief overview of crucial moments and themes in the history of Europe over the period covered, followed by thematic chapters that both take apart and also reconstitute assumptions strongly held by previous scholars-all in engaging and relatively jargon-free language... For those who have been waiting for a sophisticated, yet user-friendly collection on gender and European history since 1945 that could constitute a solid starting point for a course on the same topic, this is the answer."

Maria Bucur-Deckard, Indiana University, USA, in The History Teacher

"The volume's introduction and conclusion frame the book well, providing some larger-picture context for the chapters... The individual chapters likewise provide fascinating and informative glimpses into a wide range of countries and topics, examining them under a gender lens. Scholars of the Cold War, of Europe, and of gender studies would all stand to gain from reading this diverse, detailed, and insightful work."

Valerie Sperling, Clark University, USA, in The Journal of Cold War Studies

This fascinating volume invites us to think comparatively across the East-West divide about the women's front in the Cold War. Featuring highly readable essays that will appeal to scholars and students alike, the collection analyzes key issues - jobs, health care, consumerism, and activism - that concerned European women from Moscow to London, Sarajevo to Amsterdam. As these gifted historians make clear, even within this chilly setting women found ways to promote peace, justice, women's rights and the global expansion of civil society. - Jacqueline deVries, Augsburg College, USA

This collaborative project is a most welcome addition to the scholarship on European history in the twentieth century, as well as to gender history and the history of the Cold War... The volume is an excellent collection for undergraduate audiences. The introduction offers an elegant and brief overview of crucial moments and themes in the history of Europe over the period covered, followed by thematic chapters that both take apart and also reconstitute assumptions strongly held by previous scholars-all in engaging and relatively jargon-free language... For those who have been waiting for a sophisticated, yet user-friendly collection on gender and European history since 1945 that could constitute a solid starting point for a course on the same topic, this is the answer."

Maria Bucur-Deckard, Indiana University, USA, in The History Teacher

"The volume's introduction and conclusion frame the book well, providing some larger-picture context for the chapters... The individual chapters likewise provide fascinating and informative glimpses into a wide range of countries and topics, examining them under a gender lens. Scholars of the Cold War, of Europe, and of gender studies would all stand to gain from reading this diverse, detailed, and insightful work."

Valerie Sperling, Clark University, USA, in The Journal of Cold War Studies