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The Holocaust and masculinities : critical inquiries into the presence and absence of men / Björn Krondorfer and Ovidiu Creangă.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Psychological aspects--Congresses.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects--Congresses.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Masculinity--Congresses.
- Masculinity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (346 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, New York State : State University of New York Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- "In recent decades, scholarship has turned to the role of gender in the Holocaust, but rarely has it critically investigated the experiences of men as gendered beings. Beyond the clear observation that most perpetrators of murder were male, men were also victims, survivors, bystanders, beneficiaries, accomplices, and enablers; they negotiated roles as fathers, spouses, community leaders, prisoners, soldiers, professionals, authority figures, resistors, chroniclers, or ideologues. This volume examines men's experiences during the Holocaust. Chapters first focus on the years of genocide: Jewish victims of National Socialism, Nazi soldiers, Catholic priests enlisted in the Wehrmacht, Jewish doctors in the ghettos, men from the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz, and Muselmänner in the camps. The book then moves to the postwar context: German Protestant theologians, Jewish refugees, non-Jewish Austrian men, and Jewish masculinities in the United States. The authors articulate the male experience in the Holocaust as something obvious (the everywhere of masculinities) and yet invisible (the nowhere of masculinities), lending a new perspective on one of modernity's most infamous chapters"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Genocide
- Hiding in Plain View
- Masculinity and Death
- The Experiences and Behavior of Male Holocaust Victims at Auschwitz
- “Higher Reasons for Sending People to Death?”
- Muselmänner in Nazi Concentration Camps
- Tests of Manhood
- Catholic Seminarians and Vernichtungskrieg
- Aftermath
- Contested Manhood
- Post-Holocaust Conceptualizations of Masculinity in Austria
- Multiple Masculinities among German Jewish Refugees
- Redemptive Masculinity
- Epilogue
- Contributors
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438477800
- 1438477805
- OCLC:
- 1432029756
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