If this is a woman : Studies on women and gender in the Holocaust / edited by Denisa Nešťáková [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nešťáková, Denisa, 1987- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish women in the Holocaust.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2021]

Summary:

The present volume contains thirteen articles based on work presented at the "XX. Century Conference: If This Is A Woman" at Comenius University Bratislava in 2019. The papers focus on various aspects of gendered experiences during World War II and the Holocaust.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword: Unholy Alliances

Introduction

Part One. Theoretical Reflections on a Gender Focus in Holocaust Studies

1. “Will You Hear My Voice?” Women in the Holocaust: Memory and Analysis

2. A Familial Turn in Holocaust Scholarship?

Part Two. Gender in Times of Occupation and Authoritarianism: Expectation and Reality

3. Masculinities under Occupation: Considerations of a Gender Perspective on Everyday Life under German Occupation

4. New Slovak Woman: The Feminine Ideal in the Authoritarian Regime of the Slovak State, 1939–1945

Part Three. Women’s Lives in Camps

5. “Our mother organized it all”: The Role of Mothers of Sereď Camp in the Memories of Their Children

6. Women in the Ilava Camp as Political Detainees in 1939

Part Four. Women in Positions of Community Leadership

7. Women in Dror and Gendered Experiences of the Holocaust?

8. Female Involvement in the “Jewish Councils” of the Netherlands and France: Gertrude van Tijn and Juliette Stern

Part Five. Women in the Resistance

9. “Ma’am, do you know that a Jew lives here?” The Betrayal of Polish Women and the Jewish Children They Hid during the Holocaust—the Case of Cracow

10. “And with these boots, I’m gonna run away from here”: The Significance of Female Narratives in the Sobibor Uprising and Its Aftermath

11. “After all, I was a ‘female’ and a ‘yid’ to boot.” Jewish Women among Partisans in Lithuania, 1941–1944

Part Six. Sexuality and Sexual Violence

12. Listening to Women’s Voices: Jewish Rape Survivors’ Testimonies in Soviet War Crimes Trials

13. Male Jewish Teenage Sexuality in Nazi Germany

Contributors

Index

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Nesťáková, Denisa If This Is a Woman

ISBN:

9781644697122

1644697122

9781644697115

1644697114

OCLC:

1291506602