Format:
Online-Ressource (xi, 290 p)
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ill
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23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0230542530
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9780230542532
Series Statement:
Genders and sexualities in history
Content:
Tracing sexual violence in Europe's twentieth century from the Armenian genocide to Auschwitz and Algeria to Bosnia, this pathbreaking volume expands military history to include the realm of sexuality. Examining both stories of consensual romance and of intimate brutality, it also contributes significant new insights to the history of sexuality
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Introduction: War and Sexuality in Europe's Twentieth Century; 1 'A Fate Worse Than Dying': Sexual Violence during the Armenian Genocide; 2 Race and Sex, Fear and Loathing in France during the Great War; 3 Italian Fascism's Ethiopian Conquest and the Dream of a Prescribed Sexuality; 4 'The Good Fellow': Negotiation, Remembrance, and Recollection - Homosexuality in the British Armed Forces, 1939-1945; 5 'Youth Off the Rails': Teenage Girls and German Soldiers - A Case Study in Occupied Denmark, 1940-1945
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6 Camp Brothels: Forced Sex Labour in Nazi Concentration Camps7 Between 'Racial Awareness' and Fantasies of Potency: Nazi Sexual Politics in the Occupied Territories of the Soviet Union, 1942-1945; 8 Sexual Abuse of Jewish Women in Auschwitz-Birkenau; 9 Sexual Violence in the Algerian War; 10 The 'Sum of Such Actions': Investigating Mass Rape in Bosnia-Herzegovina through a Case Study of Foca; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780230285637
Additional Edition:
Print version Brutality and Desire : War and Sexuality in Europe's Twentieth Century
Language:
English
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