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Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century brings together a collection of some of the finest Genocide Studies scholars in North America and Europe to examine gendered discourses, practices and experiences of ethnic cleansing and genocide in the 20th century. It includes essays focusing on the genocide in Rwanda, the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, the Holocaust and ethnic cleansing and genocide in the former Yugoslavia.
The book looks at how historically- and culturally-specific ideas about reproduction, biology, and ethnic, national, racial and religious identity contributed to the possibility for and the unfolding of genocidal sexual violence, including mass rape. The book also considers how these ideas, in conjunction with discourses of femininity and masculinity, and understandings of female and male identities, contributed to perpetrators' tools and strategies for ethnic cleansing and genocide, as well as victims' experiences of these processes. This is an ideal text for any student looking to further understand the crucial topic of gender in genocide studies.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Gendering Genocide Studies
- Part One Gendered Experiences of Genocide
- Chapter 1 Gender and the Holocaust: Male and Female Experiences of Auschwitz
- Chapter 2 Masculinities and Vulnerabilities in the Rwandan and Congolese Genocides
- Part Two Sexual Violence and Mass Rape
- Chapter 3 Exposed Bodies: A Conceptual Approach to Sexual Violence during the Armenian Genocide
- Chapter 4 An Exceptional Genocide? Sexual Violence in the Holocaust
- Chapter 5 Constructions of Identity and Sexual Violence in Wartime: The Case of Bosnia
- Chapter 6 Rape as a Weapon of Genocide: Gender, Patriarchy, and Sexual Violence in Rwanda
- Part Three Gender and Complicity
- Chapter 7 Ordinary Masculinity: Gender Analysis and Holocaust Scholarship
- Chapter 8 Women as Perpetrators: Agency and Authority in Genocidal Rwanda
- Part Four Post-Genocidal Trauma and Memory
- Chapter 9 The Biopolitics of “Rescue”: Women and the Politics of Inclusion after the Armenian Genocide1
- Chapter 10 Wartime Rape and Its Shunned Victims
- Chapter 11 Distortions in Survivors’ Narratives from Srebrenica: The Impossibility of Conveying Their Truth
- Part Five Genocide Prevention and International Law
- Chapter 12 Making Sense of Genocide, Making Sense of Law: International Criminal Prosecutions of Large-Scale Sexual Violence
- Chapter 13 Gender and the Future of Genocide Studies and Prevention
- Selected Combined Bibliography
- Index
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