Invisibility on Photographs
The fifth chapter discusses why no visual representation of women perpetrators exists. Though Hungarian state archives hold a plethora of films, newsreels, and press photos made during and after the Second World War, there are hardly any visual traces of
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Andrea Pető
The Women of the Arrow Cross Party “For several decades, gender studies have sought to lift the invisibility of women, forgotten or ignored by the dominant discourses despite being major actors in history. Rare are the studies that show how this invisibility has, on the contrary, been able to hide the contribution of some women to systems of domination, in this case Hungarian fascism. Andrea Pető’s study is particularly stimulating in removing unexpected taboos.” —Henry Rousso, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (Paris) “Isn’t it amazing that even two decades into the 21st century we still need proof for the importance of gender history in order to explain past and present phenomena and their entanglement? The present book by the internationally renowned scholar Andrea Pető is one of these proofs and a brilliant one: by reconstructing the hidden story of female contribution to Hungarian fascism, she is able not only to dissect the specific functions of gendered memory politics, but also to shed an illuminating light on contemporary developments.” —Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, Director of the Center for Research on Antisemitism (Berlin) “Feminists often point out the invisibility of women in historical accounts. But rarely do they do what Andrea Pető does: bringing a gender lens to the Hungarian far right, she brilliantly exposes the long-term effects of the erasure of the Arrow Cross women’s complicity from history, judgement, responsibility and memory. Meticulously researched and sharply analyzed, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the current rise of the far right.” —Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University (New York)
Andrea Pető
The Women of the Arrow Cross Party Invisible Hungarian Perpetrators in the Second World War
Andrea Pető Central European University Budapest, Hungary
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