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“I think it is [the] mother who keeps things going”: The gendered division of labor in the transmission of memory of the Armenian Genocide

Öndercan Muti and Öykü Gürpınar · 2021

Catalogue summary

Analysis of twenty-six Beirut interviews examines how young Armenian women negotiate gendered responsibility for remembering, reframing, and transmitting Genocide memory.

Why this matters

The study makes power relations and assigned family roles visible within collective remembrance instead of treating transmission as gender-neutral.

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Published in
Memory Studies
Year
2021
Language
English
DOI
10.1177/1750698020988755

Citation

Öndercan Muti and Öykü Gürpınar 2021. “I think it is [the] mother who keeps things going”: The gendered division of labor in the transmission of memory of the Armenian Genocide. Memory Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698020988755

Topics

Armenian GenocideDiasporaGender, family, memory, and oral history

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