Gender and atrocity: women in Holocaust photographs
TitreGender and atrocity: women in Holocaust photographs
Auteur
Call number704.9499405318/0004
N° d'objet05719M
Lieu de publicationNew Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
EditeurRutgers University Press
Année de publication
2000
Paginationpp247-271
MatérielArticle
SérieRutgers 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