Women in the Holocaust (Record no. 25465)
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| fixed length control field | 01879nam a22001697a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780199608683 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 940.5318082 |
| Item number | WAX-W |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Waxman, Zoe |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Women in the Holocaust |
| Sub Title | : a feminist history |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Oxford |
| Name of publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year of publication | 2017 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 181p. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Include Bibliography and Index<br/> |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Despite some pioneering work by scholars, historians still find it hard to listen to the voices of women in the Holocaust. Learning more about both the women who survived and who did not survive the Nazi genocide—through the testimony of the women themselves—not only increases our understanding of this terrible period in history but necessarily makes us rethink our relationship to the gendered nature of knowledge itself. This book is about the ways in which socially and culturally constructed gender roles were placed under extreme pressure; yet also about the fact that gender continued to operate as an important arbiter of experience. Indeed, paradoxically enough, the extreme conditions of the Holocaust—even of the death camps—may have reinforced the importance of gender. Whilst men and women for no greater reason than their being Jewish were sentenced to death, gender nevertheless operated as a crucial signifier for survival. Pregnant women, as well as women accompanied by young children or those deemed incapable of hard labour, were sent straight to the gas chambers. The very qualities which made them women were manipulated and exploited by the Nazis as a source of dehumanization. Moreover, women were less likely to survive the camps even if they were not selected for death. Gender, therefore, became a matter of life and death<br/> |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | .<br/>--.<br/>. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | History |
| Form subdivision | Jewish women in the Holocaust |
| -- | Feminism |
| -- | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |
| -- | Personal narratives |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
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| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Permanent Location | Current Location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Bill Date | Full call number | Accession Number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| NASSDOC Library | NASSDOC Library | 2019-03-25 | OP | 2019-03-25 | 940.5318082 WAX-W | 50372 | 2019-03-25 | Books |