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Volume 18 in the series Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies is entitled Exile and Gender II: Politics, Education and the Arts. It is edited by Charmian Brinson, Jana Barbora Buresova and Andrea Hammel, and is intended as a companion volume to Volume 17, which focused on literature and the press. This new volume considers the life and work of exiled women politicians, academics and artists, among others, examining the ways - both positive and negative - in which their exile affected them. The sixteen contributions, which are in English or German, set out to throw new light on aspects of gendered relations and experiences of women in exile in Great Britain and Ireland. Contributors are: Jana Barbora Buresova, Rachel Dickson, Inge Hansen-Schaberg, Gisela Holfter, Hadwig Kraeutler, Ulrike Krippner, Dieter Krohn, Gertrud Lenz, Bea Lewkowicz, Sarah MacDougall, John March, Iris Meder, Irene Messenger, Merilyn Moos, Felicitas M. Starr-Egger, Jennifer Taylor, Gaby Weiner.

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Charmian Brinson, PhD King's College London, is Emeritus Professor of German at Imperial College London and founder member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies. She has published numerous publications on German Exile Studies, in particular political exile and women in exile. Jana Barbora Buresova, PhD London, is a committee member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies. Her research and publications focus, in particular, on Czechoslovak women refugees in Britain. Andrea Hammel, DPhil Sussex University, is Reader in German at Aberystwyth University. Her publications include books and articles on the literature and history of German-speaking refugees from National Socialism, especially the Kindertransport.

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