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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
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.
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D731 World War II D History General and Old World > DD Germany |
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| 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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| 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| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||||||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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