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The Holocaust and masculinities : critical inquiries into the presence and absence of men /

"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, benefici...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Krondorfer, Björn (Editor ), Creangă, Ovidiu, 1976- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany, NY : SUNY Press, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Genocide. 1. Hiding in plain view: bringing critical men's studies and holocaust studies into conversation
  • 2. Masculinity and death: De- and resexualization in Nazi concentration camps
  • 3. The experiences and behavior of male Holocaust victims at auschwitz
  • 4. "Higher reasons for sending people to death?" Male narrativity and moral dilemmas in memoirs and diaries of Jewish doctors
  • 5. Muselmänner in Nazi concentration camps: thinking masculinity at the extremes
  • 6. Tests of manhood: alcohol, sexual violence, and killing in the Holocaust
  • 7. Catholic seminarians and Vernichtungskrieg: how nationalism, religion, and masculinity mattered
  • Part II: Aftermath. 8. Contested manhood: autobiographical reflections of German Protestant theologians after World War II
  • 9. Post-Holocaust conceptualizations of masculinity in Austria
  • 10. Multiple masculinities among German Jewish refugees: a transnational comparison between Canada and Palestine/Israel
  • 11. Redemptive masculinity: American images of Jewish men from the Holocaust to the Six-day War
  • Epilogue: The Holocaust and masculinities
  • Contributors
  • Author index
  • Subject index.