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This book explores and analyzes the central role played by women who exercised agency as either rescuers or perpetrators during the Rwandan genocide.
List of contents
Introduction: A Study in Contrasts
1. Finding the Right Flashlight
2. History of Rwanda
3. Mobilization and Militarization
4. Rescuers
5. Perpetrators
6. Post-Genocide Trajectories
7. Sharing Salt
Epilogue
About the author
Sara E. Brown is a Fellow at the USC Shoah Foundation - The Institute for Visual History and Education, and has a PhD in Comparative Genocide Studies from Clark University, USA.
Summary
This book explores and analyzes the central role played by women who exercised agency as either rescuers or perpetrators during the Rwandan genocide.
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'..this study contributes to the knowledge of issues related to gender, perpetrators, and reconciliation in post-genocide Rwanda. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; professionals.'--P. G. Conway, SUNY College at Oneonta, CHOICE
'This book will interest scholars across a vast range of disciplines, including international law, genocide studies, history and feminist studies. It will also be of interest to anyone who wishes to hear from the women and men of Rwanda whose voices are so often silenced or filtered before they reach outside audiences. Through her engagement with the moving and confronting oral histories of those who were affected by the violence in Rwanda, Brown achieves her objectives of “finding the right flashlight” and complicating the narrative of women’s roles in the genocide. The result is a persuasive and engaging read.'--Katherine Fallah, University of Technology Sydney, State Crime Journal
