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Experience
and Expression
Women, the Nazis, and the Holocaust
Edited by Elizabeth R. Baer and Myrna Goldenberg |
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many powerful accounts of the Holocaust have given rise to women’s
voices, and yet few researchers have analyzed these perspectives to learn
what the horrifying events meant for women in particular and how they related
to them. In Experience and Expression, the
authors take on this challenge, providing the first book-length gendered
analysis of women and the Holocaust, a topic that is emerging as a new field
of inquiry in its own right.
The collection explores an array of fascinating topics:
rescue and resistance, the treatment of Roma and Sinti women, the fate
of female forced laborers, Holocaust politics, nurses at so-called euthanasia
centers, women’s experiences of food and hunger in the camps, the
uses and abuses of Anne Frank, and the representations of the Holocaust
in art, film, and literature in the postwar era. |
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"Experience
and Expression is superbly edited and introduced
by Elizabeth R. Baer and Myrna Goldenberg, two outstanding scholars and editors.
They have achieved the difficult feat of assembling in one collection essays
of a very high caliber, each of which is clear, focused, and accessible,
and many of which contain new insights and ideas. This is a significant and
compelling work that will prove indispensable to everyone who wants to study
about women, the Nazis, and the Holocaust."
—Dr. Carol Rittner, RSM, Distinguished
Professor of Holocaust & Genocide Studies, The Richard Stockton College
of New Jersey
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