Gendered Violence Jewish Women in the Pogroms of 1917 to 1921 / Irina Astashkevich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Astashkevich, Irina, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (171 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This is a groundbreaking study of an important and neglected topicâ€"the systematic use of rape as a strategic weapon of the genocidal anti-Jewish violence, known collectively as pogroms, that erupted in Ukraine in the period between 1917 and 1921, and in which at least 100,000 Jews died and undocumented numbers of Jewish women were raped. The book is based on the in-depth study of the scores of narratives of Jewish men and women who survived the pogrom violence, but were then all but forgotten for almost a century. This book deconstructs the motives of perpetrators, the experience and expression of trauma by the victimized community, and how the genocidal objectives of the pogrom perpetrators were achieved and maximized through the macabre carnival of violence.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2017: Front list Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101110

ISBN:

9781618119070