Description
Book SynopsisIlluminating the unique experiences of women both during and after genocide, JoAnn DiGeorgio-Lutz and Donna Gosbee's edited collection is a vital addition to genocide scholarship. The contributors revisit genocides of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from Armenia in 1915 to Gujarat in 2002, examining the roles of women as victims, witnesses, survivors, and rescuers.
Trade ReviewCovering an unusually broad range of genocides around the world, this volume assembles highly original, empirically rich, and methodologically thoughtful research on the suffering and the agency of women during and after events of mass violence in France, Romania, Armenia, Cambodia, Rwanda, Guatemala, Kosovo, India, and Bangladesh in the 20th century. This book is a must-read for students of women’s history and genocides, and it may serve as a model for further explorations into the gendered experience of violence, terror, and war. - Thomas Kühne, Strassler Professor of Holocaust History, Clark University
""This powerful compendium makes the never-told and forgotten stories of women who survived or perished in twentieth century and twenty-first century genocides unforgettable. It makes a strong contribution to understanding how genocides are gendered and why women’s voices and lives matter in the study of and resistance to genocides."" - Anne Sisson Runyan, Professor, Departments of Political Science and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Cincinnati
Table of Contents
- Introduction, JoAnn DiGeorgio-Lutz and Donna Gosbee
- Chapter 1: Women of the Armenian Genocide: From Eyewitness Accounts to Literary Echoes, Sona Haroutyunian
- Chapter 2: Romani Women and the Holocaust: Testimonies of Sexual Violence in Romanian-Controlled Transnistria, Michelle Kelso
- Chapter 3: The Gender Dimension of the Holocaust in France, Carol Mann
- Chapter 4: Silencing the Women: Violence through Rape in the 1971 War of Liberation, Farah Ishtiyaque
- Chapter 5: What Is Remembered? Gendered Silence, Sexual Violence, and the Khmer Rouge Atrocity, Theresa de Langis
- Chapter 6: Genocide in Central America: Testimonies of Survivors in Guatemala, Martha C. Galvan-Mandujano
- Chapter 7: Survival and Rescue: Women during the Rwandan Genocide, Sara E. Brown
- Chapter 8: Breaking the Protracted Silence about Genocidal Rape in Kosova, Shirley Cloyes DioGuardi
- Chapter 9: ""We Want Justice!"" Women and the Gujarat Genocide, Dolores Chew
- Conclusion, JoAnn DiGeorgio-Lutz and Donna Gosbee
- About the Contributors
