Baidak, M. (2021). Viina yak vyklyk i mozhlyvist: ukrainky v roky Pershoi svitovoi viiny [War as challenge and opportunity: Ukrainian women during the First World War]. Institute of Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. ISBN 978-966-02-9425-7
Annotation: This monograph reconstructs the variety of Galician women’s everyday practices from 1914, when the First World War broke out, to 1921, when the Treaty of Riga effectively brought to a close for Ukrainians the period of war and the associated struggles for national statehood, after which the last men were finally able to return home from the front, from captivity, and from internment camps. The book examines the particularities of women’s military and civic activity and their place in family and society; women’s worldviews during the war, including attitudes toward life and death, patriotism and duty, time and space; the significance of the Home in women’s self-identification; models of family relations in conditions of separation; and the formation of images of women and women’s everyday life in contemporary fiction, folk art, visual works, and photographs. There was no universal way for women to endure the war: their experiences and ways of living through it varied widely. The author emphasizes that women were active agents in social processes.