National Femininity Used and Contested: Women’s Participation in the Nationalist Underground in Western Ukraine during the 1940s-50s

Abstract: In the 1940s and 1950s, thousands of Ukrainian women joined the underground nationalist movement on west Ukrainian lands as members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). However, their experiences and contributions to this movement rema...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oksana Kis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Alberta, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies 2015-09-01
Series:East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies
Online Access:https://www.ewjus.com/index.php/ewjus/article/view/143