This collection offers perspectives by scholars on the history of sexuality under national socialism, covering such topics as: the persecution of Jewish-gentile sex in the 'race defilement' trials: homophobic propaganda and the prosecution of same-sex activity within the Wehrmacht and SS: representations of female sexuality in film: prostitution on home and battle fronts: sexual relations between Germans and foreign forced laborers: and reproductive practices among Jewish survivors. Moreover, the authors provide new insights into the relationships between Nazi sexual politics and anti-Semitism, and challenge assumptions of Nazism as sexually repressive: instead they emphasize the interrelationships between incitement to sexual activity, persecution and mass murder.
Author seeks to explain the configuration of lesbian violence in the film, Monster, by taking as its starting point this updated cinematic rehearsal in terms that rearticulate a materialist feminist advance on the film's particular projection of queerness while engaging a critical theoretical qualification of right-residual tendencies within materialist theory that ideologically cull same-sex love and desire between and for women into a likewise potentially damaging mythification of revolutionary praxis. In this way, the article seeks not to reconnect the divergent psychoanalytic and materialist strands of critical theory.