Representation of Women in the Exhibitions dedicated to the Great Patriotic War

The following article analyzes the forms and the content of women’s representation in the exhibitions dedicated to the Great Patriotic War in the late 60’s and the early 80’s using the example of the exhibition dedicated to Great Patriotic War at the Museum of People’s Friendship and the Permanent Exhibition of Gori and Gori district Museum of Battle Glory. Throughout the research the literature on these museums, the photo album, thematic lecture, and the available visual sources were analyzed. As a result, the ambivalent forms of expressing masculinity and femininity of Soviet and National, as well as the following central topoi were identified: Women’s involvement in war was a force majeure event; women fight bravely like men and together with men; Georgian mother in the exhibition represents a mainstay of ethnic culture, while father is a historical actor.