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Zusatztext In the relatively new but rapidly expanding field of genocide studies, gender analysis is at the cutting edge and Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century represents some of the most current relevant research. Amy Randall has brought together prominent scholars, historians and legal experts, sharpened with in-depth field experience, to produce accessible, well-documented and thought-provoking evidentiary and analytical essays that will be greatly beneficial to students, scholars, lawyers, human rights and policy activists alike. Multiple case studies of the key genocides of the 20th century including Armenia, the Holocaust, Rwanda and Srebrenica convincingly demonstrate that the lens of gender provides profound insights, both historical and humanitarian, for making sense of the inconceivable crimes of mass identity-based violence. The essays present both female and male, victim and perpetrator-focused analysis, balancing gender consciousness against gender theory, and make a substantial contribution to understanding the causes, addressing the trauma, achieving justice, and preventing future genocides. Informationen zum Autor Amy E. Randall is Associate Professor of History at Santa Clara University, USA. She is the author of The Soviet Dream World of Retail Trade and Consumption in the 1930s (2008). Vorwort An edited collection of essays that explores the gendered dimensions of ethnic cleansing and genocide in the 20th century. Zusammenfassung CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2016 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on the ContributorsAcknowledgments Introduction: Gender Matters Amy E. Randall (Santa Clara University, USA) Part I -- Gendered Experiences of Genocide 1. ‘Gender and the Holocaust: Male and Female Experiences of Auschwitz’ Lisa Pine (London South Bank University, UK) 2. ‘Masculinities and Vulnerabilities in the Rwandan and Congolese Genocides’ Adam Jones (University of British Columbia, Canada) Part II – Sexual Violence and Mass Rape 3. ‘Exposed Bodies: A Conceptual Approach to Sexual Violence During the Armenian Genocide’ Anthonie Holslag (Independent Scholar, The Netherlands) 4. ‘An Exceptional Genocide? Sexual Violence in the Holocaust’ Zoë Waxman (University of Oxford, UK) 5. ‘Constructions of Identity and Sexual Violence in Wartime: The Case of Bosnia’ Patricia Weitsman (Ohio State University, USA) 6. ‘Rape as a Weapon of Genocide: Gender, Patriarchy, and Sexual Violence in the Rwanda' Jennie Burnet (University of Louisville, USA) Part III – Gender and Complicity 7. ‘Ordinary Masculinity: Gender Analysis and Holocaust Scholarship’ Stephen Haynes (Rhodes College, USA) 8. ‘Women as Perpetrators: Agency and Authority in Genocidal Rwanda' Nicole Hogg (Interna...
