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From Heroines to Hyenas: Women Partisans during the Greek Civil War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2001

Margaret Poulos Anagnostopoulou
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Abstract

The participation of women in armed combat was arguably the most striking feature of the Greek Civil War (1946–9). The advent of civil conflict marked a shift in the gendered division of military labour, as the female ‘novelty’ soldier of the earlier Resistance period (1941–4) gave way to the fully integrated female combatant. This article seeks to examine the circumstances which lead to such high levels of female representation within the ranks of the partisan army (the Greek Democratic Army), but also to explore the symbolic functions of this volatile imagery in the context of intense struggles to define Greek national culture and identity.

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Research Article
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Contemporary European History , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , November 2001 , pp. 481 - 501
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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