Women and Genocide

Synopsis

This Edited Collection Looks At Genocide From A Gendered Perspective And Underscores The Importance Of Isolating Women's Lives As A Central, Yet Often Overlooked, Component To Understanding Genocidal Experiences. The Contributors Revisit Genocides Of The 20th And 21st Centuries, From Armenia In 1915 To Guharat In 2002, To Investigate The Ways In Which Women's Experiences Across Genocides Are Comparable And Yet Profoundly Different. Using Sources Such As Narratives, Testimonies, Memoirs, And Literature, The Authors Bring To Light The Understudied Experiences Of Women During And After These Events--from Their Day-to-day Survival To Sexual Violence, And How They Dealt With The Trauma Post-genocide. The Chapters Are All United Under A Consistent Methodological Framework, Allowing For Comparisons Across Genocides.-- Women Of The Armenian Genocide: From Eyewitness Accounts To Literary Echoes / Sona Haroutynian -- Romani Women And The Holocaust: Testimonies Of Sexual Violence In Romanian-controlled Transnistria / Michelle Kelso -- The Gender Dimension Of The Holocaust In France / Carol Mann -- Silencing The Women: Violence Through Rape In The 1971 War Of Liberation / Farah Ishtiyaque -- What Is Remembered? Gendered Silence, Sexual Violence, And The Khmer Rouge Atrocity / Theresa De Langis -- Genocide In Central America: Testimonies Of Survivors In Guatamala / Martha C. Galvan-mandujano -- Survival And Rescue: Women During The Rwandan Genocide / Sara E. Brown -- Breaking The Protracted Silence About Genocidal Rape In Kosova / Shirley Cloyes Dioguardi -- We Want Justice! Women And The Gujarat Genocide / Delores Chew. Edited By Joann Digeorgio-lutz And Donna Gosbee. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Issued Also In Electronic Format.