The essay analyzes the equation of Fascism and homosexuality offered by two founding works of the Italian left-wing Neorealist movement: Roberto Rossellini's film Roma, città aperta (1945) and Vasco Pratolini's novel Cronache di poveri amanti (1947). By identifying Fascism and homosexuality, both works limited their commemoration of the victims of Fascism to heterosexuals and contributed to the erasure ...

War has been a key part of the Australian experience and central to many national mythologies. Yet more than most activities, war polarises femininity and masculinity. While there has been no shortage of military history, little has been written about Australia's military involvements from the perspective of gender. This exciting collection of essays explores for the first time the interrelationship ...

Under democracy and dictatorship, in times of war and times of peace, women's human rights are violated daily and often systematically. Women may be denied the right to vote or hold office. They may be subjected to rape and sexual abuse by soldiers, police, employers, family members. They may not be free to choose when or whom to marry, or how many children to have and when to have them. The United ...

This thesis presents a systematic exploration of the official protection of sites and locations in Amsterdam to which members of the local LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans) community attribute great significance. The goal of this research is to identify relevant sites, to analyse which of them could be seen as most significant, and to recommend a site which could be assigned official status by being ...

This essay explores the hidden dimensions of same-sex intimacy and queer sexuality for Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II. Queer accounts of Japanese American wartime history are rare because of the atypical structure of the incarceration camps, which organized inmates by family units, the prevalence of intergenerational narratives, and dominant themes of loyalty, innocence, and civility. ...

Introduction / Jonathan C. Friedman. - PART I. The Nazi Takeover and Persecution in Hitler's Reich to 1939. 1. The Jewish communities of Europe on the eve of World War II / Jonathan C. Friedman. - 2. European antisemitism before the Holocaust and the roots of Nazism / William Brustein. - 3. Germany and the Armenian genocide of 1915-17 / Hans-Lukas Kieser. - 4. Eugenics, race hygiene, and the Holocaust: ...