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Gendered violence : Jewish women in the pogroms of 1917 to 1921

Title
Gendered violence : Jewish women in the pogroms of 1917 to 1921 / Irina Astashkevich.
Author
Astashkevich, Irina
Publication
Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2018.

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Description
xxi, 147 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
This is a groundbreaking study of an important and neglected topic--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.
Series Statement
Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and their legacy
Uniform Title
Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and their legacy.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Informational works.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-143) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Chaos in Ukraine: defining the context of anti-Jewish violence -- Carnival of violence: development of the pogrom script -- The perfect weapon: mass rape as public spectacle -- Inventing vengeance: who and why punished the Jews -- Describing the indescribable: narratives of gendered violence -- "Wretched victims of another kind": making sense of rape trauma.
Call Number
JFE 23-1273
ISBN
  • 9781618116161
  • 1618116169
  • 9781618119995
  • 1618119990
  • 9781618116178
  • 1618116177
LCCN
2018960615
OCLC
1077480424
Author
Astashkevich, Irina, author.
Title
Gendered violence : Jewish women in the pogroms of 1917 to 1921 / Irina Astashkevich.
Publisher
Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2018.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and their legacy
Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and their legacy.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-143) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 23-1273
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