Brutality and Desire : War and Sexuality in Europe's Twentieth Century

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.

Introduction: War and Sexuality in Europe''s Twentieth Century; D.Herzog ''A Fate Worse Than Dying'': Sexual Violence during the Armenian Genocide; M.Bjørnlund Race and Sex, Fear and Loathing in France during the Great War; R.S.Fogarty Italian Fascism''s Ethiopian Conquest and the Dream of a Prescribed Sexuality; M-A.Matard-Bonucci ''The Good Fellow'': Negotiation, Remembrance, and Recollection - Homosexuality in the British Armed Forces, 1939-1945; E.Vickers ''Youth Off the Rails'': Teenage Girls and German Soldiers - A Case Study in Occupied Denmark, 1940-1945; L.A.Hansen Camp Brothels: Forced Sex Labour in Nazi Concentration Camps; R.Sommer Between ''Racial Awareness'' and Fantasies of Potency: Nazi Sexual Politics in the Occupied Territories of the Soviet Union, 1942-1945; R.Mühlhäuser Sexual Abuse of Jewish Women in Auschwitz-Birkenau; N.Shik Sexual Violence in the Algerian War; R.Branche The ''Sum of Such Actions'': Investigating Mass Rape in Bosnia-Herzegovina Through a Case Study of Foca; T.Iacobelli