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