Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century: A Comparative Survey

✍ Scribed by Amy E. Randall

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 481
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Focusing on events in Rwanda, Armenia, and the former Yugoslavia as well as the Holocaust, Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century investigates how historically- and culturally-specific ideas led to genocidal sexual violence. Expert contributors also consider how these ideas, in conjunction with issues relating to femininity, masculinity and understandings of gendered identities, contributed to perpetrators' tools and strategies for ethnic cleansing and genocide. The 2nd edition features: * Five brand new chapters which explore: imperialism, race, gender and genocide; the Cambodian genocide; memory and intergenerational transmission of Holocaust trauma; and genocide, gender and memory in the Armenian case. * An extended and enhanced introduction which makes use of recent scholarship on gender and violence. * Historiographical and bibliographical updates throughout. * Key primary document - excerpt from the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. Updated and revised in its second edition, Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century is the authoritative study on the complex gender dimensions of ethnic cleansing and genocide in the 20th century.

✦ Table of Contents

Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction: Gender and Genocide Studies
Why Gender Analysis Matters
Genocide and the Soviet Union
Contributions to the Volume
Part I: Gender and Genocide: Part I
Chapter 1: Imperialism, Modern Race Thinking, Gender, and Genocide
Chapter 2: Gender and the Holocaust: Male and Female Experiences of Auschwitz
Chapter 3: Masculinities and Vulnerabilities in the Rwandan and Congolese Genocides
Part II: Sexual Violence and Mass Rape: Part II 
Chapter 4: Exposed Bodies: A Conceptual Approach to Sexual Violence during the Armenian Genocide
Chapter 5: An Exceptional Genocide?: Sexual Violence in the Holocaust
Chapter 6: Constructions of Identity and Sexual Violence in Wartime: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Chapter 7: Rape as a Weapon of Genocide: Gender, Patriarchy, and Sexual Violence in Rwanda
Part III: Gender and Complicity : Part III 
Chapter 8: Ordinary Masculinity: Gender Analysis and Holocaust Scholarship
Chapter 9: Women as Perpetrators: Agency and Authority in Genocidal Rwanda
Part IV: Gendered Genocidal Trauma and Its Aftermaths : Part IV 
Chapter 10: The Biopolitics of “Rescue”: Women and the Politics of Inclusion after the Armenian Genocide1
Chapter 11: Wartime Rape and Its Shunned Victims
Part V: Gender, Memory, and Narratives about the Past: Part V
Chapter 12: Memory, Gender, and the Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma among Daughters and Granddaughters of Holocaust Survivors  
Chapter 13: Gendered Silences, Gendered Memories: New Memory Work on Islamized Armenians in Turkey 
Part VI: International Law and Genocide Studies Prevention: Part VI 
Chapter 14: Making Sense of Genocide, Making Sense of Law: International Criminal Prosecutions of Large-Scale Sexual Violence
Chapter 15: Representing Gendered Violence in Democratic Kampuchea
Chapter 16: Beyond the Binaries: Gender and the Future of Genocide Studies and Prevention
Appendix
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index