Women in the Holocaust: A Feminist HistoryZoë Waxman
This work places Zoë Waxman in the company of feminist historians addressing the impact and influence of gender before, during, and after the Holocaust. Counter to some established scholars and survivors who have suggested that gender trivializes or distracts from understanding racially motivated ge...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2018
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 32, Issue: 2, Pages: 308-309 |
| Review of: | Women in the Holocaust (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017) (Bower, Kathrin)
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| Summary: | This work places Zoë Waxman in the company of feminist historians addressing the impact and influence of gender before, during, and after the Holocaust. Counter to some established scholars and survivors who have suggested that gender trivializes or distracts from understanding racially motivated genocide, Waxman maintains that it should be “a conceptual tool of analysis” in “every history of the Holocaust” (p. 147) to achieve a more differentiated understanding of the event, its antecedents, its effects, and its long-term implications. Waxman both credits and criticizes earlier works on women in the Holocaust, applauding Joan Ringelheim for resisting idealization and homogenization, but faulting studies that seek to valorize women’s behavior in the ghettos and camps. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcy023 |