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Autore |
Astashkevich Irina |
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Gendered Violence : Jewish Women in the Pogroms of 1917 to 1921 / / Irina Astashkevich |
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Academic Studies Press, 2018 |
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Boston, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2018] |
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©2018 |
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ISBN |
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1-61811-617-7 |
1-61811-907-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxi, 147 pages) |
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Collana |
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Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Antisemitism - Ukraine |
Pogroms - Ukraine |
Jewish women - Violence against - Ukraine |
Ukraine Ethnic relations |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Chaos in Ukraine: Defining the Context of Anti-Jewish Violence -- CHAPTER 2 Carnival of Violence: Development of the Pogrom Script -- CHAPTER 3 The Perfect Weapon: Mass Rape as Public Spectacle -- CHAPTER 4 Inventing Vengeance: Who and Why Punished the Jews -- CHAPTER 5 Describing the Indescribable: Narratives of Gendered Violence -- CHAPTER 6 "Wretched Victims of Another Kind": Making Sense of Rape Trauma -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This is a groundbreaking study of an important and neglected topic. Between 1917 and 1921, rape was used as a strategic weapon in the genocidal anti-Jewish violence-the pogroms-that erupted in Ukraine. During this period, at least 100,000 Jews died and unknown numbers of Jewish women were raped. The book is based on the in-depth study of the scores of survivor narratives that have been all but forgotten for almost a century. It analyzes how the victimized Jewish communities experienced trauma, how they expressed it, the motives of the |
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