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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Vandana Joshi |
| ISBN: | 1403911703 9781403911704 |
| OCLC Number: | 51922903 |
| Description: | xx, 229 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Methodology and sources -- The "private" became "public": wives as denouncers in the realm of the family -- Fishing in troubled waters? gender perspectives on denouncers and their Jewish victims -- Faces of gender oppression: the "Aryan" interface with "racially foreign" workers. |
| Responsibility: | Vandana Joshi. |
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Abstract:
"In the last decade a considerable amount of work has been done to demystify the Gestapo, which, far from being omniscient, depended heavily on unsolicited denunciations of 'deviants and dissenters'. A substantial number of these denunciations were sent in by ordinary women. So far no one has thought to ask why." "This is the first book to attempt to provide an answer. It explores those spaces within the patriarchal, sexist and racist power structures of the regime that women appropriated, by articulating and resolving their varied conflicts through denunciations. It questions the victim-vs-perpetrator paradigm within which studies on denunciation have hitherto been cast, and instead argues for a more nuanced, differentiated approach. It also places structures of male sexual aggression alongside those of female aggression towards 'community aliens'."--Jacket.
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- National socialism and women.
- Informers -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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- Women -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
- Political persecution -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
- Vrouwen.
- Informanten.
- Nationaal-socialisme.
- Gestapo.
- Geheime Staatspolizei.
- Denunziantin.
- Geschlechterforschung.
- Deutschland.
