Sexual violence against Jewish women during the Holocaustedited by Sonja M. Hedgepeth and Rochelle G. Saidel.

Sexual violence against Jewish women during the Holocaustedited by Sonja M. Hedgepeth and Rochelle G. Saidel. - Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press ; 2010. Hanover [N.H. : University Press of New England, (c)2010. - 1 online resource (xii, 308 pages) - HBI series on Jewish women .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Foreword by Shulamit Reinhartz -- Acknowledments -- Introduction / Aspects of sexual abuse -- Death and the maidens: "Prostitution," rape, and sexual slavery during World War II / Sexualized violence against women during Nazi "racial" persecution / Sexual exploitation of women in Nazi concentration camp brothels / Schillinger and the dancer: Representing agency and sexual violence in Holocaust testimonies / Rape of Jewish women -- "Only pretty women were raped": The effect of sexual violence on gender identities in the concentration camps / The tragic fate of Ukrainian Jewish women under Nazi occupation, 1941-1944 / The rape of Jewish women during the Holocaust / Rape and sexual abuse in hiding / Assaults on motherhood -- Reproduction under the swastika: The other side of the glorification of motherhood / Forced sterilization and abortion as sexual abuse / Sexual violence in literature and cinema -- Sexual abuse in Holocaust literature: Memoir and fiction / "Stoning the messenger": Yehiel Dinur's House of dolls and Piepel / Nava Semel's And the rat laughed: A tale of sexual violation / "Public property": Sexual abuse of women and girls in cinematic memory / The violated self -- Sexual abuse of Jewish women during and after the Holocaust: A psychological perspective / The shame is always there / Contributors -- Index. Sonja M. Hedgepeth and Rochelle G. Saidel -- Nomi Levenkron -- Brigitte Halbmayr -- Robert Sommer -- Kirsty Chatwood -- Monika J. Flashka -- Anatoly Podolsky -- Helene J. Sinnreich -- Zoe Waxman -- Helga Amesberger -- Ellen Ben-Sefer -- S. Lillian Kremer -- Miryam Sivan -- Sonja M. Hedgepeth and Rochelle G. Saidel -- Yvonne Kozlovsky-Golan -- Eva Fogelman -- Esther Dror and Ruth Linn --

The first book in English to specifically address the sexual violation of Jewish women during the Holocaust



9781584659044


Jewish women in the Holocaust.
Jewish women--Violence against--History--Europe--20th century.
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Europe.
Eugenics--History--Germany--20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.


Electronic Books.

D804 / .S498 2010