| Description |
xx, 229 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Methodology and Sources -- 2. The 'Private' Became 'Public': Wives as Denouncers in the Realm of the Family -- 3. Fishing in Troubled Waters? Gender Perspectives on Denouncers and Their Jewish Victims -- 4. Faces of Gender Oppression: the 'Aryan' Interface with 'Racially Foreign' Workers |
| Summary |
"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'."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-223) and index |
| Subject |
Germany. Geheime Staatspolizei.
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National socialism and women.
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Informers -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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Women -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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Political persecution -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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| LC no. |
2003045603 |
| ISBN |
1403911703 |
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