Women and Genocide

Elissa Bemporad is the Jerry and William Ungar Chair in East European Jewish History and the Holocaust, and Associate Professor of History at Queens College of the City University of New York and at The CUNY Graduate Center. She is author of Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk.Joyce W. Warren is Professor of English and Director of Women and Gender Studies at Queens College of the City University of New York. She is the author of a number of works including most recently Women, Money, and the Law: Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Gender, and the Courts and editor of Feminism and Multiculturalism: How Do They/We Work Together?

• AcknowledgmentsPreface / Joyce W. WarrenIntroduction: Memory, Body, and Power: Women and the Study of Genocide / Elissa Bemporad1. The Gendered Logics of Indigenous Genocide / Andrea Smith2. Women and the Herero Genocide / Elisa von Joeden-Forgey3. Arshaluys Mardigian/Aurora Mardiganian: Absorption, Stardom, Exploitation, and Empowerment / Donna-Lee Frieze4. "Hyphenated" Identities during the Holodomor: Women and Cannibalism / Olga Bertelsen5. Gender: A Crucial Tool in Holocaust Research / Marion Kaplan6. German Women and the Holocaust in the Nazi East / Wendy Lower7. Romani Girls: Resiliency and Caretaking during the Holocaust in Romanian-controlled Transnistria / Michelle Kelso8. Birangona: Bearing Witness in War and 'Peace' / Bina D'Costa9. Very Superstitious: Gendered Punishment in Democratic Kampuchea , 1975-1979 / Trude Jacobsen10. Sexual Violence as a Weapon during the Guatemalan Genocide / Victoria Sanford, Sofia Duyos Alvarez-Arenas and Kathleen Dill11. Gender and the Military in Post-Genocide Rwanda / Georgina Holmes12. Narratives of Survivors of Srebrenica: How Do They Reconnect to the World? / Selma Leydesdorff13. The Plight and Fate of Females during and Following the Darfur Genocide / Samuel Totten14. Grassroots Women's Participation in Addressing Conflict and Genocide: Case Studies from the MENA Region and Latin America / Lisa David and Cassandra AtlasSelected Bibliography: Further ReadingsIndex

" Women and Genocide is an immense scholarly accomplishment that has the potential to fund creative advances in each of the scholarly disciplines it engages, as well as human rights, peace, and anti-violence programs of advocacy."—Reading Religion"This book is a must, not only for classes on gender and sexuality, war and genocide, and feminist studies, but also approachable for anyone interested in war, genocide, or gender as it explores an uncommon, yet crucial, aspect of genocide."—Tejpaul Singh Bainiwal, University of California, Riverside, Religious Studies Review