Speaking the Unspeakable: Essays on Sexuality, Gender, and Holocaust Survivor Memory / Edition 1

by Jonathan C. Friedman

Overview

Testimonies from the survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation form the basis of this study of memory and trauma in relation to women's experiences and sexual behavior during Hitler's reign of terror. The three essays in this manuscript explore survivor testimony for memories of sexual politics and the functioning of the Nazi state, sexual abuse that often cut across gender lines, and sexual behavior in the different contexts of persecution_ghettos, camps, and hiding.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761824633
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	12/28/2002
Pages:	116
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Jonathan C. Friedman is Historian, Department of Exhibitions, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The "Eugenic Utopia" Chapter 3 Gender and Nazi Exploitation Chapter 4 "Consensual" Sex, Deep Memory, and Working Through Chapter 5 Conclusion Chapter 6 Select Bibliography Chapter 7 Index