Rallying Europe

This book spotlights the trajectories of young women and men navigating the turmoil of the early 20th century. It will be relevant for scholars and students in History, Sociology, Gender Studies and Youth Studies.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of European Review of History.

Autorentext

Katharina Seibert is PostDoc Researcher at the Department for Contemporary History at the University of Tübingen, Germany. She earned her PhD from the University of Vienna with her thesis "Who Cares? Negotiating Gender and Society at Spain's Sickbeds during the 1930s and 1940s". She specializes in the European and Spanish history of the twentieth century, gender and queer history, and the history of medicine.

Barnabas Balint completed his doctorate in history at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where his research explored Jewish life during the Holocaust in Hungary. He is the 2024/ 5 Miles Lerman Center for the Study of Jewish Resistance Research Fellow at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Inhalt

Introduction - Rallying Europe: Young women and men searching for a life and a future

1. Traces of youth: Reconstructing Hungarian women's lives during the Holocaust

2. Unreachable youth: Physical education, national mobilization and intergenerational conflict in interwar Yugoslavia. The case of the Yugoslav Sokol

3. 'Fragt denn da ein junger Mensch nach?': Would a young person ask that? Growing up in the Reichsarbeitsdienst in 1942

4. Una Coscienza Coloniale: forging imperial women in the Fascist Colonial Institute of Bologna

5. The 'New Woman' of Weimar Germany in the imaginations of young Iranian intellectuals

6. 'In this country, women are also soldiers': Interrelations between age and gender in the women's section of the Romanian Legionary Movement

7. Health, home and hearth: How war nurses negotiated their place at the table during the dawn of Francoist Spain