Does atrocity have a gender? Feminist interpretations of women in the SS
TítuloDoes atrocity have a gender? Feminist interpretations of women in the SS
Autor
Call number940.5318/0044
Número del objeto05857m
Lugar de publicaciónEvanston, Illinois, United States
EditorialNorthwestern University Press
Año de publicación
2004
Paginaciónpp300-324
MaterialArticle
ISBN0810120011
NotesArticle from the book 'Lessons and legacies' Vol.VI pp300-324
Descripción
States that historians need to rethink the use of concepts of gender and femininity when analysing the behaviour of female perpetrators. At the few postwar trials, "testimony was presented and evaluated in genderes ans sexualised mythological language," but this testimony may not in fact really explain the behaviour of women perpetrators.