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7 - Gender and Perpetration

from Part I - Structures, Players, and Processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2025

By
Elissa Mailänder
Edited by
Mary Fulbrook  and
Jürgen Matthäus
Mary Fulbrook
Affiliation:
University College London
Jürgen Matthäus
Affiliation:
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Summary

This chapter addresses gender in the context of male-dominated societal and occupational structures during the Second World War; relevance of group dynamics within and between genders in violence-saturated, highly volatile settings (”the East”); discusses masculinity/femininity and rituals of violence during Holocaust, also in light of insights gained by genocide studies.

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genderviolence ritualsgenocide studies

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The Cambridge History of the Holocaust , pp. 169 - 192
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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