21 The Iconography of Gendered Sacrifice: Women’s Army Corps Memorials in Israel and Great Britain: Women's Army Corps Memorials in Israel and Great Britain

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Abstract

'Memory is never shaped in a vacuum; the motives of memory are never pure'(Young 1993, 2). James Young begins his path-breaking study about the texture of memory with this warning, reminding us of the multifaceted 'lives' of national memorials and monuments, those sites of remembrance which act as historical markers honoring the dead while also embodying national myths of beginnings. Cautioning us against reading a monument or memorial as a text without referring to its related subtexts, Young stresses how one must ...
Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationThe Actuality of Sacrifice
EditorsAlberta Houtman, Marcel Poorthuis, Joshua Schwartz, Joseph Turner
Place of PublicationLeiden
Pages401-420
Number of pages20
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014

Publication series

NameJewish and Christian Perspectives Series
Volume28

RAMBI publications

  • rambi
  • Collective memory -- Great Britain
  • Collective memory -- Israel
  • War memorials -- Great Britain
  • War memorials -- Israel
  • Women soldiers -- Great Britain
  • Women soldiers -- Israel

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