1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910813975503321

Titolo

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

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

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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

940.5318082

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