In this Book
- Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Brandeis University Press
- Series: HBI Series on Jewish Women
summary
Using testimonies, Nazi documents, memoirs, and artistic representations, this volume broadens and deepens comprehension of Jewish women’s experiences of rape and other forms of sexual violence during the Holocaust. The book goes beyond previous studies, and challenges claims that Jewish women were not sexually violated during the Holocaust. This anthology by an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars addresses topics such as rape, forced prostitution, assaults on childbearing, artistic representations of sexual violence, and psychological insights into survivor trauma. These subjects have been relegated to the edges or completely left out of Holocaust history, and this book aims to shift perceptions and promote new discourse.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page
- pp. iii-vi
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-10
- Part I: Aspects of Sexual Abuse
- 1: Death and the Maidens
- pp. 13-28
- 4: Schillinger and the Dancer
- pp. 61-74
- Part II: Rape of Jewish Women
- 5: “Only Pretty Women Were Raped”
- pp. 77-93
- 8: Rape and Sexual Abuse in Hiding
- pp. 124-136
- Part III: Assaults on Motherhood
- 9: Reproduction under the Swastika
- pp. 139-155
- Part IV: Sexual Violence in Literature and Cinema
- 11: Sexual Abuse in Holocaust Literature
- pp. 177-199
- 12: “Stoning the Messenger”
- pp. 200-216
- 13: Nava Semel’s And the Rat Laughed
- pp. 217-233
- 14: “Public Property”
- pp. 234-252
- Part V: The Violated Self
- 16: The Shame Is Always There
- pp. 275-292
- Contributors
- pp. 293-296
Additional Information
ISBN
9781584659044
Related ISBN(s)
9781584659037, 9781584659051
MARC Record
OCLC
687917026
Pages
320
Launched on MUSE
2012-07-25
Language
English
Open Access
No