Women in the Holocaust : a feminist history /
Waxman, Zoë
Women in the Holocaust : a feminist history / Zoë Waxman - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017 - (181 p.)
Bibliogr. p. 153-175
Women in the ghettos -- Hiding -- Concentration camps -- After the war -- Conclusion : towards a feminist history of genocide
"Despite some pioneering work by scholars, historians still find it hard to listen to the voices of women in the Holocaust. Learning more about the women who both survived and did not survive the Nazi genocide - through the testimony of the women themselves - not only increases our understanding of this terrible period in history, but makes us rethink our relationship to the gendered nature of knowledge itself. Women in the Holocaust is about the ways in which socially- and culturally-constructed gender roles were placed under extreme pressure; yet also about the fact that gender continued to operate as an important arbiter of experience...
978-0-19-960868-3
940.5318082
Women in the Holocaust : a feminist history / Zoë Waxman - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017 - (181 p.)
Bibliogr. p. 153-175
Women in the ghettos -- Hiding -- Concentration camps -- After the war -- Conclusion : towards a feminist history of genocide
"Despite some pioneering work by scholars, historians still find it hard to listen to the voices of women in the Holocaust. Learning more about the women who both survived and did not survive the Nazi genocide - through the testimony of the women themselves - not only increases our understanding of this terrible period in history, but makes us rethink our relationship to the gendered nature of knowledge itself. Women in the Holocaust is about the ways in which socially- and culturally-constructed gender roles were placed under extreme pressure; yet also about the fact that gender continued to operate as an important arbiter of experience...
978-0-19-960868-3
940.5318082