Description
This course will study the Holocaust through the lens of gender, both the historical event and subsequent cultural representations of it. The course will explore gender’s role in shaping the individual’s experience in the Holocaust- how women and men faced different dangers and employed different strategies for survival, and how Nazis’ perpetration was influenced by traditional gender expectations. Moving beyond the historical event, this course will study film, memoir, and theatrical representations to challenge the “universal” narrative of the Holocaust. Major topics include: Memory, identity, gender theory, photographic analysis, agency, and violence.