Authors:
- Kenny Fries: -

- Dorota Glowacka, Contemporary Studies Program, University of King’s College - ORCID, ResearchGate

- Atina Grossmann, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Cooper Union - Wikipedia

- Anna Hájková, Department of History, University of Warwick - ORCID, Wikipedia

- Björn Krondorfer, Martin-Springer Institute, Northern Arizona University - Academia.edu

- Regina Mühlhäuser: Academia.edu, ORCID

- Joanna Ostrowska: Personal Website, ORCID

- Zoë Waxman, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies , University of Oxford

Abstract: »While perspectives on gendered and sexual experiences, practices, and norms during the Holocaust have significantly changed in recent decades, questions remain about how to understand and represent these topics, particularly gender-based and sexual violence. In this conversation, six Holocaust scholars, from varied backgrounds and representing different generations, respond to questions posed by the special issue editors, Dorota Glowacka and Regina Mühlhäuser. They discuss the current state of debates about gender, sexuality, and sexual violence during the Holocaust. Reflecting on the material conditions and distinguishable geographical and ideological coordinates in which they have conducted their work, they recount ideas and scholarly currents that have helped them generate their specific modes of understanding. They consider the challenges and obstacles to knowledge production they have faced at various stages of their work, revealing how ingrained assumptions about gender and sexuality circumscribe research questions, methods of inquiry, and the ways in which their findings are interpreted, presented, and received. While they address the impact of changing social sensibilities and perceptions of gender and sexuality on their work and point to the emergence of new themes and areas of study, they also draw attention to the subjects that remain unexamined, socially sanctioned, or excluded from rigorous examination.« (Source: The Journal of Holocaust Research)

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