Gender and atrocity: women in Holocaust photographs
TitoloGender and atrocity: women in Holocaust photographs
Autore
Call number704.9499405318/0004
Numero oggetto05719M
Luogo di pubblicazioneNew Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
EditoreRutgers University Press
Anno di pubblicazione
2000
Paginazionepp247-271
MaterialeArticle
SerieRutgers depth of field series
ISBN0813528933
NotesArticle from the book 'Visual culture and the Holocaust' pp247-271
Descrizione
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