Memorializing the Holocaust
：Gender, Genocide and Collective Memory
Publication subTitle ：Gender, Genocide and Collective Memory
Author： Jacobs Janet
Publisher： I.B.Tauris
Publication year： 2010
E-ISBN: 9780857718112
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781848851023
Subject： K152 World War II (1939 - 1945)
Keyword： 欧洲史,现代史（1917年~）,历史、地理
Language： ENG
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Description
How do collective memories of histories of violence and trauma in war and genocide come to be created? Janet Jacobs offers new understandings of this important issue in her examination of the representation of gender in the memorial culture of Holocaust monuments and museums, from synagogue memorials and other historical places of Jewish life and culture, to the geographies of Auschwitz, Majdanek and Ravensbruck._x000D__x000D_Jacobs travelled to Holocaust sites across Europe to explore representations of women. She reveals how these memorial cultures construct masculinity and femininity, explores gender and religious memory, and looks at the Holocaust's effect on stereotyping on grounds of race or gender. She also uncovers the wider ways in which images of violence against women have become universal symbols of mass trauma and genocide. This feminist analysis of Holocaust memorialization brings together gender and collective memory with the geographies of genocide to fill a significant gap in our understanding of genocide and national remembrance.
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