Girls Cutting Their Locks
2020 Ukrainian non-fiction book
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Girls Cutting Their Locks (Ukrainian: Дівчата зрізають коси) is a book about women in the Russo-Ukrainian war, edited by Yevgeniya Podobna and published by the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance.[1] The book presents 25 first-person testimonies by women who served in the Ukrainian Armed Forces and volunteer units during the War in Donbas (2014–2018), accompanied by photographs from the combat zone.[2][3] It is an English translation by Mariia Kovalenko of the Ukrainian book published in 2018.
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| Editor | Yevgeniya Podobna |
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| Original title | Дівчата зрізають коси |
| Translator | Mariia Kovalenko |
Publication date | 2020 |
| ISBN | 978-617-7420-77-3 |
| Text | Girls Cutting Their Locks online |
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.[4]
In academic discussion, Anastassiya Andrianova (2025) used the anthology's 25 first-person narratives as qualitative data for a thematic analysis of gendered experiences and discrimination during the Donbas war.[5]