Gender Dimensions of Partisan Memory in Central and Eastern Europe

• In Event: Gender and Memory in 20th Century Baltic States

Abstract

This presentation will survey the representation of women resistance fighters in memory landscapes of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold war and its aftermath. The focus is on Lithuania; however, comparisons with the other parts of the region with intense partisan warfare, specifically, the former Yugoslavia and Poland, will be made. Which women are remembered in partisan histories, and which ones continue to be absent from public history? How are women portrayed in the stories about partisan warfare—as victims, heroic subjects or both?

Author

• Dovile Budryte, Georgia Gwinnett College / Vytautas Magnus / Vilnius U (Lithuania)