Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust
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Overview
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781584659051 |
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| Publisher: | Brandeis University Press |
| Publication date: | 12/14/2010 |
| Series: | HBI Series on Jewish Women |
| Edition description: | New Edition |
| Pages: | 314 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Foreword Shulamit Reinharz ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction Sonja M. Hedgepeth Rochelle G. Saidel 1
I Aspects of Sexual Abuse 11
1 Death and the Maidens: "Prostitution," Rape, and Sexual Slavery during World War II Nomi Levenkron 13
2 Sexualized Violence against Women during Nazi "Racial" Persecution Brigitte Halbmayr 29
3 Sexual Exploitation of Women in Nazi Concentration Camp Brothels Robert Sommer 45
4 Schillinger and the Dancer: Representing Agency and Sexual Violence in Holocaust Testimonies Kirsty Chatwood 61
II Rape of Jewish Women 75
5 "Only Pretty Women Were Raped": The Effect of Sexual Violence on Gender Identities in the Concentration Camps Monika J. Flaschka 77
6 The Tragic Fate of Ukrainian Jewish Women under Nazi Occupation, 1941-1944 Anatoly Podolsky 94
7 The Rape of Jewish Women during the Holocaust Helene J. Sinnreich 108
8 Rape and Sexual Abuse in Hiding ZOË Waxman 124
III Assaults on Motherhood 137
9 Reproduction under the Swastika: The Other Side of the Glorification of Motherhood Helga Amesberger 139
10 Forced Sterilization and Abortion as Sexual Abuse Ellen Ben-Sefer 156
IV Sexual Violence in Literature and Cinema 175
11 Sexual Abuse in Holocaust Literature: Memoir and Fiction S. Lillian Kremer 177
12 "Stoning the Messenger": Yehiel Dinur's House of Dolls and Piepel Miryam Sivan 200
13 Nava Semel's And the Rat Laughed: A Tale of Sexual Violation Sonja M. Hedgepeth Rochelle G. Saidel 217
14 "Public Property": Sexual Abuse of Women and Girls in Cinematic Memory Yvonne Kozlovsky-Golan 234
V The Violated Self 253
15 Sexual Abuse of Jewish Women during and after the Holocaust: A Psychological Perspective Eva Fogelman 255
16 The Shame Is Always There Esther Dror Ruth Linn 275
Contributors 293
Index 297
What People are Saying About This
“Challenging conventional interpretations by highlighting evidence that has been ignored, downplayed, or even silenced, Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust, a book as courageous as it is sensitive, significantly expands scholarship about the Holocaust’s extremity and intensifies imperatives to resist every kind of sexual abuse.”
“This book touches upon a deeply troubling and too long ignored topic. The Nazis used a wide variety of means to humiliate, degrade, and torture Jews. Rape and sexual abuse were among them. Sadly, it was not only the Nazis and their allies who abused Jewish women. Jews, non-Jewish prisoners, and even liberators did as well. The editors and contributors to this volume deserve great credit for addressing this painful topic.”
"The Holocaust horrors suffered by males and females alike have been rightly memorialized in histories and museums, but the sexual violence suffered by females has rarely been recorded. Perhaps we would have been better able to prevent the rapes in the former Yugoslavia and the Congo if we had not had to wait more than sixty years to hear the truths that are anthologized in Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust by Sonja Hedgepeth and Rochelle Saidel. We owe them and the authors they assembled a debt of gratitude for a well-documented warning that sexual violence is a keystone of genocide."
— Gloria Steinem, feminist writer and organizer, co-founder of the Women's Media Center