Brutality and Desire
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Brutality and Desire

War and Sexuality in Europe's Twentieth Century

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Brutality and Desire

War and Sexuality in Europe's Twentieth Century

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. List of Contributors
  6. Introduction: War and Sexuality in Europe’s Twentieth Century
  7. 1 ‘A Fate Worse Than Dying’: Sexual Violence during the Armenian Genocide
  8. 2 Race and Sex, Fear and Loathing in France during the Great War
  9. 3 Italian Fascism’s Ethiopian Conquest and the Dream of a Prescribed Sexuality
  10. 4 ‘The Good Fellow’: Negotiation, Remembrance, and Recollection – Homosexuality in the British Armed Forces, 1939–1945
  11. 5 ‘Youth Off the Rails’: Teenage Girls and German Soldiers – A Case Study in Occupied Denmark, 1940–1945
  12. 6 Camp Brothels: Forced Sex Labour in Nazi Concentration Camps
  13. 7 Between ‘Racial Awareness’ and Fantasies of Potency: Nazi Sexual Politics in the Occupied Territories of the Soviet Union, 1942–1945
  14. 8 Sexual Abuse of Jewish Women in Auschwitz-Birkenau
  15. 9 Sexual Violence in the Algerian War
  16. 10 The ‘Sum of Such Actions’: Investigating Mass Rape in Bosnia-Herzegovina through a Case Study of Foca
  17. Index