Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century: A Comparative Survey

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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.

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By critically interrogating research on study of genocide intersectionality of gender with other forms of identity, and by understanding how diverse positionalities of different women and men in particular political, sociocultural, and historical contexts have informed their experiences as genocide victims and perpetrators, this collection explores how gendered experiences of violence become marginalized or included in national memories produce gendered outcomes in a variety of way. * Andrea Peto, Professor in the Department of Gender Studies, Central European University, Vienna *
Few edited collections offer such nuanced analyses of the gendered dynamics of genocide as Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century. In this revised edition, contributors provide fresh and important perspectives on gendered genocide in historical context, while expertly exposing how post-genocide societies continue to deal with the complexities of genocide decades after the crime was committed. * Georgina Holmes, Visiting Research Fellow, King's College London, UK *

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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).