If This Is a Woman : : Studies on Women and Gender in the Holocaust / / ed. by Denisa Nešťáková, Katja Grosse-Sommer, Jakub Drábik, Borbála Klacsmann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Aleksiun, Natalia,; Drábik, Jakub,; Grosse-Sommer, Katja,; Havryshko, Marta,; Klacsmann, Borbála,; Laba, Agnes,; Nedlin-Lehrer, Anna,; Nešťáková, Denisa,; Ofer, Dalia,; Pető, Andrea,; Sliwa, Joanna,; Vastenhout, Laurien,; Wilson, Hannah,; Zabransky, Florian,; Zavacká, Marína,; Zerdoun-Daniel, Modiane,; Škorvanková, Eva Š,
• HerausgeberIn: Drábik, Jakub,; Grosse-Sommer, Katja,; Klacsmann, Borbála,; Nešťáková, Denisa,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (292 p.)

The present volume contains thirteen articles based on work presented at the “XX. Century Conference: If This Is A Woman” at Comenius University Bratislava in January 2019. The conference was organized against anti-gender narratives and related attacks on academic freedom and women’s rights currently all too prevalent in East-Central Europe. The papers presented at the conference and in this volume focus, to a significant extent, on this region. They touch upon numerous points concerning gendered experiences of World War II and the Holocaust. By purposely emphasizing the female experience in the title, we encourage to fill the lacunae that still, four decades after the enrichment of Holocaust studies with a gendered lens, exist when it comes to female experiences.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword: Unholy Alliances -- Introduction -- Part One. Theoretical Reflections on a Gender Focus in Holocaust Studies -- 1. “Will You Hear My Voice?” Women in the Holocaust: Memory and Analysis -- 2. A Familial Turn in Holocaust Scholarship? -- Part Two. Gender in Times of Occupation and Authoritarianism: Expectation and Reality -- 3. Masculinities under Occupation: Considerations of a Gender Perspective on Everyday Life under German Occupation -- 4. New Slovak Woman: The Feminine Ideal in the Authoritarian Regime of the Slovak State, 1939–1945 -- Part Three. Women’s Lives in Camps -- 5. “Our mother organized it all”: The Role of Mothers of Sereď Camp in the Memories of Their Children -- 6. Women in the Ilava Camp as Political Detainees in 1939 -- Part Four. Women in Positions of Community Leadership -- 7. Women in Dror and Gendered Experiences of the Holocaust? -- 8. Female Involvement in the “Jewish Councils” of the Netherlands and France: Gertrude van Tijn and Juliette Stern -- Part Five. Women in the Resistance -- 9. “Ma’am, do you know that a Jew lives here?” The Betrayal of Polish Women and the Jewish Children They Hid during the Holocaust—the Case of Cracow -- 10. “And with these boots, I’m gonna run away from here”: The Significance of Female Narratives in the Sobibor Uprising and Its Aftermath -- 11. “After all, I was a ‘female’ and a ‘yid’ to boot.” Jewish Women among Partisans in Lithuania, 1941–1944 -- Part Six. Sexuality and Sexual Violence -- 12. Listening to Women’s Voices: Jewish Rape Survivors’ Testimonies in Soviet War Crimes Trials -- 13. Male Jewish Teenage Sexuality in Nazi Germany -- Contributors -- Index