Author: Anna Hájková, Department of History, University of Warwick - Google Scholar, Wikipedia

Contents:

	Body/Service: Historiography of Sex Work in the Holocaust (p. 155)
	Witnesses Judging Sexual Barter (p. 157)
	Narrating Sexual Barter in the First Person (p. 162)
	Sexual Barter in Hiding (p. 164)
	Relationships with Perpetrators (p. 167)
	Conclusion (p. 170)
	Acknowledgments (p. 173)
	Notes (p. 174)
	Bibliography (p. 183)

Extract: »Building on my earlier work on sexual barter in Theresienstadt, this article presents a historiographic intervention that moves beyond simplistic and reductive views implied by the term “forced prostitution.” I critique the automatic categorization of prostitution as sexual violence or even rape merely because the women and men involved had limited control over their lives. Zoë Waxman is correct in stating that “refusing to acknowledge that even women in extremity can be capable of making choices ... renders the women involved faceless victims.” In the account to follow, I will explore cases of unofficial, unorganized sexual barter by Holocaust victims in various settings such as ghettos, camps, and in hiding, demonstrating why context is key and exploring what sexual barter can tell us about the mentality and limited choices of the participants. The goal is to systematically examine the mechanisms that stigmatized prostitution. I will not address prostitution organized by the perpetrators, such as brothelsfor the Wehrmacht, concentration camp prisoners, or forced laborers, because these did not include any Jews. This piece also does not address the sexual barter of children. Whether children’s participation in sexual barter could entail meaningful agency is an important debate.10 However, as but one intervention, this article focuses on cases involving adults only (though some of them were young) in order to avoid the far more complex question of child abuse.« (Source: Article, p. 152-153)

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