1st Edition

Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Holocaust

By Alison Rose Copyright 2026
402 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

402 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

402 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book presents a comprehensive introduction to the broad and developing field of women, gender, and sexuality in the Holocaust. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach that incorporates global, gender fluid, and intersectional perspectives, it examines experiences of Nazi Germany, the Nazi-occupied territories, ghettos, camps, resistance and rescue, and partisan movements. Women, Gender,... Read more

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Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Holocaust

Chapter 2: Gender and Jewish History

Chapter 3: Gender and Antisemitism/ German and Nazi Views on Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Chapter 4: Gender and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany

Chapter 5: “Not Worthy of Life”: Gender and the Murder of the Disabled

Chapter 6: Gender in the Ghettos

Chapter 7: Gender in the German-Occupied Territories

Chapter 8. Gender in Concentration and Death Camps

Chapter 9. Gender in “Hiding”

Chapter 10: Sinti and Roma Women and Families in the Holocaust

Chapter 11. Gender in Ghetto and Camp Resistance

Chapter 12: Gender in Partisan Movements, General Resistance, and Rescue

Chapter 13: Gender and Holocaust Memory and Representations

Chapter 14: Conclusion: Coming to Terms with the Holocaust

Index

Biography

Alison Rose is a part-time professor at the University of Rhode Island. She is the author of Jewish Women in Fin de Siècle Vienna (2008) and Antisemitism, Gender Bias, and the “Hervay Affair” of 1904: Bigotry in the Austrian Alps (2016).