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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910813975503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Waltham, MA, : Brandeis University Press; Hanover [Mass.], : University Press of New England, c2010
• ISBN: 1-282-89569-9; 9786612895692; 1-58465-904-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Collana: HBI series on Jewish women
• Altri autori (Persone): HedgepethSonja M <1952-> (Sonja Maria); SaidelRochelle G
• Disciplina: 940.53/18082
• Soggetti: Jewish women in the Holocaust; Jewish women - Violence against - Europe - History - 20th century; World War, 1939-1945 - Atrocities - Europe; Eugenics - Germany - History - 20th century; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 --
• Sommario/riassunto: The first book in English to specifically address the sexual violation of Jewish women during the Holocaust