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Podcast: New Books in Women's History
Episode: Denisa NesƄåkovå and Katja Grosse-Sommer, "If This Is a Woman: Studies on Women and Gender in the Holocaust" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
Description: Denisa NesĆ„ĂĄkovĂĄ and Katja Grosse-Sommer edited volumne If This Is a Woman: Studies on Women and Gender in the Holocaust (Academic Studies Press, 2021) contains thirteen articles based on work presented at the âXX. Century Conference: If This Is A Womanâ at Comenius University Bratislava in January 2019. The conference was organized against anti-gender narratives and related attacks on academic freedom and womenâs rights currently all too prevalent in East-Central Europe. The papers presented at the conference and in this volume focus, to a significant extent, on this region. They touch upon numerous points concerning gendered experiences of World War II and...