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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hedgepeth, Sonja M. (Sonja Maria), 1952-

Saidel, Rochelle G.

Series:

HBI series on Jewish women.

HBI series on Jewish women

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish women in the Holocaust.

Jewish women--Violence against--Europe--History--20th century.

Jewish women.

World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Europe.

World War, 1939-1945.

Eugenics--Germany--History--20th century.

Eugenics.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waltham, MA : Brandeis University Press ; Hanover [Mass.] : University Press of New England, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

III. Assaults on motherhood. Reproduction under the swastika : the other side of the glorification of motherhood / Helga Amesberger

Forced sterilization and abortion as sexual abuse / Ellen Ben-Sefer

IV. Sexual violence in literature and cinema. Sexual abuse in Holocaust literature : memoir and fiction / S. Lillian Kremer

"Stoning the messenger" : Yehiel Dinur's House of dolls and Piepel / Miryam Sivan

Nava Semel's And the rat laughed : a tale of sexual violation / Sonja M. Hedgepeth and Rochelle G. Saidel

"Public property" : sexual abuse of women and girls in cinematic memory / Yvonne Kozlovsky-Golan

V. The violated self. Sexual abuse of Jewish women during and after the Holocaust : a psychological perspective / Eva Fogelman

The shame is always there / Esther Dror and Ruth Linn.

I. Aspects of sexual abuse. Death and the maidens : "prostitution," rape, and sexual slavery during World War II / Nomi Levenkron

Sexualized violence against women during Nazi "racial" persecution / Brigitte Halbmayr

Sexual exploitation of women in Nazi concentration camp brothels / Robert Sommer

Schillinger and the dancer : representing agency and sexual violence in Holocaust testimonies / Kirsty Chatwood

II. Rape of Jewish women. "Only pretty women were raped" : the effect of sexual violence on gender identities in the concentration camps / Monika J. Flashka

The tragic fate of Ukrainian Jewish women under Nazi Occupation, 1941-1944 / Anatoly Podolsky

The rape of Jewish women during the Holocaust / Helene J. Sinnreich

Rape and sexual abuse in hiding / Zoë Waxman

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612895692

9781282895690

1282895699

9781584659044

1584659041

OCLC:

687917026