Amy Randall, “Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century: A Comparative Survey” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015)

New Books in Sociology · May 16, 2016 · 1h 3m

Any time I prepare to do an interview, I make sure I read the blurb on the back of the book. One of the blurbs on the back cover of Amy Randall’s superb new collection Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century: A Comparative Survey (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015)is from Dirk Moses, who says simply that the book is “The volume for which the field has been waiting.” It’s an apt and revealing comment. Randall’s volume is a terrific contribution to the field. Focusing tightly on four of the canonical genocides in the twentieth century, the contributors offer new and valuable insights into the…