Gender and atrocity: women in Holocaust photographs
TitleGender and atrocity: women in Holocaust photographs
Author
Call number704.9499405318/0004
Object number05719M
Place of publicationNew Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
PublisherRutgers University Press
Year of publication
2000
Physical descriptionpp247-271
MaterialArticle
Series titleRutgers depth of field series
ISBN0813528933
NotesArticle from the book 'Visual culture and the Holocaust' pp247-271
Description
Argues that the atrocity narrative is unable to accommodate the issue of gendered experience within the broader visual representation of atrocity. Instead the gender of women in Holocaust photos is simplified, either overgendered in ways that play to stereotypical notions of gender or rendered genderless