Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Νεότερη και Σύγχρονη Ελληνική Ιστορία: ελληνοβενετικός, οθωμανικός, νεότερος ελληνικός κόσμοςLibrary of the School of Philosophy
Supervisors info:
Δήμητρα Λαμπροπούλου, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια Νεότερης Ελληνικής Ιστορίας, τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Βαγγέλης Καραμανωλάκης, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής Νεότερης Ελληνικής Ιστορίας, τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
Ποθητή Χαντζαρούλα, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια Ιστορικής Ανθρωπολογίας, τμήμα Κοινωνικής Ανθρωπολογίας και Ιστορίας, Πανεπιστήμιο Αιγαίου
Original Title:
Γυναίκες της Κατοχής: βιωμένη εμπειρία και μνήμη για τη δεκαετία του ’40 μέσα από γραπτές και προφορικές μαρτυρίες γυναικών
Translated title:
Women during the Occupation: lived experience and memory about the decade of 1940 through women’s written and oral testimonies
Summary:
The present thesis investigates the Occupation as a lived experience. The period 1941-1944 is viewed through an analysis that focuses both on written and oral women’s personal testimonies. The Occupation’s individual and collective, personal and public memory is being explored through the lens of gender, which is treated as the main analytical perspective. More specifically, the variety of women’s experiences, that validate their desire to speak or write, intertwines with the gender perspective. In addition, this standpoint contributes to the examination of Occupation as a landmark in the women’s testimonies, and a turning point in their lives.
The first chapter of the paper, on the one hand, documents the production’s context of women’s oral and written testimonies concerning the Occupational period, and on the other hand, presents the decisive influence of the historization of the 1940s. In order to present the Occupation as a multifaceted and pluralistic experience, the second chapter explores the Occupation as a lived experience viewed through four shared themes emerging from the examined corpus of testimonies. At the same time, it illustrates the Occupation as a watershed in women’s personal testimonies, by discussing the context of women’s actions before the Occupation and the new wartime reality. The final chapter concludes with the contrast between the pluralism occurring in the women’s testimonies and an idealized female public image established after the end of the Second World War. Thus, the formation of two heroines, Lela Karagianni for the Right Wing and Electra Apostolou for the Left Wing, enables us not only to witness the impact of such heroic paradigms on the personal testimonies, but also the marginalization of those women’s experiences who did not align with the heroic narratives.
Summing up, this paper aspires to participate in the broader discussion about women's experiences in relation to the 1940s, focusing on the construction of a gender -based memory.
Main subject category:
History
Keywords:
Occupation, Second World War, Decade of 1940, Women, Lived Experience, Gender-based Memory, Oral History, Personal Testimonies
Number of references:
247
