Citation

Sanasarian E. Holocaust Genocide Stud. 1989; 4(4): 449-461.

Affiliation

University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, Oxford University Press)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

20684116

Abstract

The relationship between gender and genocide remains ambivalent. A preliminary analysis of in-depth interviews with 14 Armenian female survivors reveals a gender distinction in the 1915 Turkish genocide of the Armenians. The genocidal process was gender-based. Men were instantaneously killed and women and children were deported. However, members of both sexes acted as perpetrators and collaborators. Few men and women acted as rescuers.

Language: en