Unique in comparative scope, this volume brings together global scholarship on gender. Thirteen international experts explore the gendered mobilization of men and women in twentieth century European and Asian mass dictatorships and colonial empires, examining both mobilization 'from above' and self-empowerment 'from below'.

Adopting a truly globalapproach to the realities of modern dictatorship, this handbook examines themultiple ways in which dictatorship functions - both for the rulers and for theruled - and draws on the expertise of more than twenty five distinguishedcontributors coming from European, American, and Asian universities.