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Different Horrors, Same Hell : Gender and the Holocaust

By Myrna Goldenberg; Amy Shapiro

Book information

Publisher
University of Washington Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9780295804576, 9780295992433
LCC
D804.47 -- .D54 2013eb
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2308292 bytes)
Series
Stephen S. Weinstein Series in Post-Holocaust Studies
Pages
311\311
Time added
2023-08-14 08:51:35
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Description

Different Horrors, Same Hell brings together a variety of essays demonstrating the breadth of contributions that feminist theory and gender analysis make to the study of the Holocaust. The collection provides new perspectives on central works of Holocaust scholarship and representation, from the books of Hannah Arendt and Ruth Kl�ger to films such as Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List. Interviews with survivors and their descendants draw new attention to the significance of women's roles and family structures during and in the aftermath of the Holocaust, and interviews and archival research reveal the undercurrents of sexual violence within the Final Solution. As Doris Bergen shows in the book's first chapter, the focus on women's and gender issues in this collection "complicates familiar and outworn categories, and humanizes the past in powerful ways."

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