Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century

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).

• Notes on the ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Gender and Genocide Studies Amy E. Randall (Santa Clara University, USA)Part I - Gender and Genocide1. Imperialism, Race Thinking, Gender, and Genocide Amy E. Randall (Santa Clara University, USA)2. Gender and the Holocaust: Male and Female Experiences of Auschwitz Lisa Pine (London South Bank University, UK)3. ‘Masculinities and Vulnerabilities in the Rwandan and Congolese Genocides Adam Jones (University of British Columbia, Canada)Part II - Sexual Violence and Mass Rape4. Exposed Bodies: A Conceptual Approach to Sexual Violence During the Armenian Genocide Anthonie Holslag (Independent Scholar, The Netherlands)5. An Exceptional Genocide? Sexual Violence in the Holocaust Zoë Waxman (University of Oxford, UK)6. Constructions of Identity and Sexual Violence in Wartime: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina Patricia Weitsman (Ohio State University, USA)7. Rape as a Weapon of Genocide: Gender, Patriarchy, and Sexual Violence in the Rwanda Jennie Burnet (University of Louisville, USA)Part III - Gender and Complicity8. Ordinary Masculinity: Gender Analysis and Holocaust Scholarship Stephen Haynes (Rhodes College, USA)9. Women as Perpetrators: Agency and Authority in Genocidal Rwanda Nicole Hogg (International Committee of the Red Cross, Switzerland) and Mark Drumbl (Washington and Lee University, USA)Part IV - Gendered Genocidal Trauma and its Aftermaths10. The Biopolitics of 'Rescue': Women and the Politics of Inclusion after the Armenian Genocide Lerna Ekmekcioglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)11. Wartime Rape and its Shunned Victims Olivera Simic (Griffith University, Australia)Part V –Gender, Memory, and Narratives about the Past12. Memory, Gender and the Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma among Daughters and Granddaughters of Holocaust Survivors Janet L. Jacobs (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)13. Gendered Silences, Gendered Memories: New Memory Work on Islamized Armenians in Turkey Ayse Gül Altinay (Sabanci University, Turkey)Part VI – International Law and Genocide Studies Prevention14. Making Sense of Genocide, Making Sense of Law: International Criminal Prosecutions of Large-Scale Sexual Violence Doris Buss (Carleton University, Canada)15. Representing Gendered Violence during Democratic Kampuchea Maria Elander (La Trobe University, Australia)16. Beyond the Binaries: Gender and the Future of Genocide Studies and Prevention Elisa von Joeden-Forgey (Pennsylvania State University, USA)Appendix: Primary Source Document - Excerpt from 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention & Punishment of Genocide Selected Combined BibliographyIndex

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.