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Hájková, Anna, Mailaender, Elissa, Bergen, Doris, Farges, Patrick and Grossmann, Atina (2018) Forum : Holocaust and history of gender and sexuality. German History, 36 (1). pp. 78-100. doi:10.1093/gerhis/ghx123

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghx123

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Abstract

Historians of sexuality in the Holocaust go where most fear to tread: Lisa Heineman called the intersection ‘doubly unspeakable’. Why is it important to explore the history of sexuality in the Holocaust and what are the methodological, ethical and political issues at stake? In this Forum, five historians of gender, sexuality, Nazism and the Holocaust discuss what the field of Holocaust history gains from integrating sexuality and gender as analytical categories. By connecting Holocaust studies to the history of sexuality, the field gains, as we will argue, new theoretical insights, recognizing power hierarchies and societal shifts. As the scholarship moves to examining gender and sexuality in the Holocaust beyond a sole (if understandable) focus on sexual violence, topics like agency, love and prostitution, same sex desire and memory and subjectivity of both the perpetrators and victims come to the fore. What are we allowed to research? Why do we consider so many topics connected to mass violence and sexuality as taboo? How are we to make sense of them? The history of sexuality and gender not only introduces new topics to Holocaust studies; it also offers, more importantly, new perspectives on familiar themes.

Item Type: Journal Item
Subjects: D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D731 World War II
D History General and Old World > DD Germany
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > History
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) , Gender expression, Gender identity, Sex role
Journal or Publication Title: German History
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Official Date: 16 February 2018
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DateEvent
16 February 2018Published
20 December 2017Available
22 August 2017Accepted
Volume: 36
Number: 1
Page Range: pp. 78-100
DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghx123
Status: Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 29 August 2017
Date of first compliant Open Access: 20 December 2019
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