Women, Violence and Trauma in Wartime and Postwar Northeastern Adriatic

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: From Violence to Trauma Marta Verginella

PART I: Wartime and Postwar Trauma in Psychiatric Sources

Postwar Trauma and Recollections in Psychiatric Records and Autobiographical Sources of Women from the North Adriatic Region - Marta Verginella

Gendered Experiences of Fear During War: Insights from Psychiatric Records in Ljubljana - Ana Cergol Paradi.

Traumas and Displacement Among Women from the Province of Gorizia During and After WWI (1915–1933) - Francesco Toncich

PART II: Wartime and Postwar Trauma in Autobiographical Sources and Film

“I Don’t Know What Historians Who Have Recorded Everything, All Human Suffering, Will Tell.” Narrating Trauma During and Post World War II -Manca G. Renko

Warrior or Victim? Representations of Women in Post-1945 Films Set in the Northern Adriatic Borderlands - Dunja Jelenkovi.

PART III: Wartime Violence and Postwar Executions

The Representation of Wartime Rape and the “Investigation Into Violations of the Law of Nations by the Enemy” (1915–1920) - Teresa Bertilotti

Rape, Refugeeism, and Ruins: Trauma in Styria and Vienna in the Wake of the Second World War - Dagmar Wernitznig

A Contribution to the Knowledge of Violence Against Women in Slovenia and in the Neighboring Territory in the First Period After the Second World War - Gorazd Bajc

PART IV: Postwar Wounds

On Forced Migration in the Regional Perspective: Focusing on Women - Ur.ka Strle

Female Suicides in Trieste (1918–1949): Statistical Trends and Narratives -Matteo Perissinotto

Working Through Post (War)Trauma: The Perspective of Widows of Croatian Homeland War Veterans - Ana Ljubojevic and Jelena Seferovic

Conclusion - Marta Verginella

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Marta Verginella is a Full Professor of History of the 19th Century and Theory of History at the University of Ljubljana. Her research interests include border and national studies, gender studies, transnational history, memories studies and the political use of history in the North Adriatic area.