Girls Cutting Their Locks
Girls Cutting Their Locks is a book about women in the Russo-Ukrainian war, edited by and published by the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance. The book presents 25 first-person testimonies by women who served in the Ukrainian Armed Forces and volunteer units during the War in Donbas, accompanied by photographs from the combat zone. It is an English translation by Mariia Kovalenko of the Ukrainian book published in 2018.
Reception
Ukrainian media reported on the book's presentation in Kyiv in December 2018; Radio Svoboda covered the event and described the book as a collection of testimonies by women who served in the conflict in eastern Ukraine.In academic discussion, Anastassiya Andrianova used the anthology’s 25 first-person narratives as qualitative data for a thematic analysis of gendered experiences and discrimination during the Donbas war.