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Abstracts:
- »Politics, religion, sex. Some topics are so difficult to discuss that they have been relegated to the category of taboo. One problem with taboo subjects is they are often used by perpetrators to simultaneously abuse and silence victims. Perpetrators count on society to, at best, frown at their mention and, at worst, revictimize those who dare to speak out. Two major topics that are notoriously difficult to discuss are the Holocaust and sexual abuse. What happens when they are combined and a third component – sexual economy – is introduced? To many, this inclusion justifies the opinion that since the sex was voluntary, the “victim” was complicit and is the one to blame for any harm incurred.« (Source: Extract from article: 25)

- »The first part of the book, Women’s Bodies: Carrying the Holocaust in One’s Flesh, opens up with Angela Ford’s chapter on the conditions that necessitated sexual barter during the Holocaust, directly confronting the reader with a topic that is hard to approach historically, as well as hard to address today, due to complicated and complex moral issues and dilemmas that burdened society in the past, while also continuing to haunt our largely patriarchal societies in the present.« (Source: Dragana Stojanović, Lily Halpert Zamir and Batya Brutin. »The Prologue: Further Towards A Space of Her Own in the Holocaust Studies.« A Space of Her Own: Women in the Holocaust. Edited by Dragana Stojanović et al. Belgrade 2025: 17-18)

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