Women and genocide : survivors, victims, perpetrators / edited by Elissa Bemporad and Joyce W. Warren.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-330) and index.

Introduction: memory, body, and power: women and the study of genocide / Elissa Bemporad -- The gendered logics of indigenous genocide / Andrea Smith -- Women and the herero genocide / Elisa von Joeden-Forgey -- Arshaluys Mardigian/Aurora Mardiganian : absorption, stardom, exploitation, and -- Empowerment / Donna-Lee Frieze -- "Hyphenated" identities during the holodomor: women and cannibalism / Olga Bertelsen -- Gender : a crucial tool in holocaust research / Marion Kaplan -- German women and the holocaust in the nazi East / Wendy Lower -- Romani girls : resiliency and caretaking during the holocaust in Romanian-controlled Transnistria / Michelle Kelso -- Birangona : bearing witness in war and 'peace' / Bina D'Costa -- Very superstitious: gendered punishment in Democratic Kampuchea, 1975-1979 / Trude -- Jacobsen -- Sexual violence as a weapon during the Guatemalan genocide / Victoria Sanford, Sofia, Duyos Alvarez-Arenas and Kathleen Dill -- Gender and the military in post-genocide Rwanda / Georgina Holmes -- Narratives of survivors of Srebrenica: how do they reconnect to the world? / Selma Leydesdorff -- The plight and fate of females during and following the Darfur genocide / Samuel Totten -- Grassroots women's participation in addressing conflict and genocide : case studies from -- The MENA region and Latin America / Lisa David and Cassandra Atlas -- Selected bibliography: further readings -- Index.

The effects of the genocides of modern history--Rwanda, Armenia, Guatemala, the Holocauset, and countless others--have been well documented, but how do the experiences of female victims and perpetrators differ from those of men? In Women and Genocide, human rights advocates and scholars come together to argue that the memory of trauma is gendered and that women's voices and perspectives are key to our understanding of the dynamics that emerge in the context of genocidal violence. The contributors to this volume examine how women are consistently targets for the sexualized violence that serves as an instrument of ethnic cleansing, how female perpetrators take advantage of the new power structures, and how women are involved in the struggle for juistice in post-genocidal contexts. By placing women at center stage, Women and Genocide helps us to better understand the nexus existing between misogyny and violence in societies where genocide erupts--back cover.

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