Brutality and Desire War and Sexuality in Europe's Twentieth Century [Paperback]

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.Introduction: War and Sexuality in Europe's Twentieth Century; D.Herzog 'A Fate Worse Than Dying': Sexual Violence during the Armenian Genocide; M.Bj?rnlund Race and Sex, Fear and Loathing in France during the Great War; R.S.Fogarty Italian Fascism's Ethiopian Conquest and the Dream of a Prescribed Sexuality; M-A.Matard-Bonucci 'The Good Fellow': Negotiation, Remembrance, and Recollection  Homosexuality in the British Armed Forces, 1939-1945; E.Vickers 'Youth Off the Rails': Teenage Girls and German Soldiers  A Case Study in Occupied Denmark, 1940-1945; L.A.Hansen Camp Brothels: Forced Sex Labour in Nazi Concentration Camps; R.Sommer Between 'Racial Awareness' and Fantasies of Potency: Nazi Sexual Politics in the Occupied Territories of the Soviet Union, 1942-1945; R.M?hlh?user Sexual Abuse of Jewish Women in Auschwitz-Birkenau; N.Shik Sexual Violence in the Algerian War; R.Branche The 'Sum of Such Actions': Investigating Mass Rape in Bosnia-Herzegovina Through a Case Study of Foca; T.Iacobelli

'Many myths have been produced about sexual pleasures and sexual terror in war and genocide. Dagmar Herzog's outstanding, disturbing, and ultimately fascinating anthology is the first to seriously historicize this most sensitive topic. Sexual desire was enmeshed in brutal violence all over Europe's most destructive century, but it was so in surprisingly diverse ways. A pathbreaking reference book and a must-read for each student of military history, gender history, and Holocaust and genocide studies.'

Thomas K?hne, Clark University, USA

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