Experience and Expression
Subtitle: Women, the Nazis, and the Holocaust
Contributors: Elizabeth Roberts Baer (Editor); Myrna Goldenberg (Editor)
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780814330623
Subjects: European history: from c 1900 -; The Holocaust; Women's studies; Moral and ethical aspects; Holocaust; Social Science; History - General History; Women's Studies - General; Sociology; Europe; Personal narratives; History and criticism; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jewish women in the Holocaust
Description: Publisher's description: The 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.