Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-233) and index.
Contents:
Unsoldierly Men? German Jews and Military Masculinity -- The Question of Race and Sex: Jewish Men and Race Defilement -- Work until the End? Jewish Men and the Question of Employment -- Double Burden? Jewish Husbands and Fathers -- Outside the KZ: Jewish Masculinities and the Rise of Nazi Violence -- Inside the KZ: Jewish Masculinities in Prewar Nazi Concentration Camps.
Summary:
"When the Nazis came to power, they used various strategies to expel German Jews from social, cultural, and economic life. Fighter, Worker, and Family Man focuses on the gendered experiences and discrimination that German-Jewish men faced between 1933 and 1941. Sebastian Huebel argues that Jewish men's gender identities, intersecting with categories of ethnicity, race, class, and age, underwent a profound process of marginalization that destabilized their accustomed ways of performing masculinity. At the same time, in their attempts to sustain their conceptions of masculinity these men maintained agency and developed coping strategies that prevented their full-scale emasculation. Huebel draws on a rich archive of diaries, letters, and autobiographies to interpret the experiences of these men, focusing on their roles as soldiers and protectors, professionals and breadwinners, and parents and husbands. Fighter, Worker, and Family Man sheds light on how the Nazis sought to emasculate Jewish men through propaganda, the law, and violence, and how in turn German-Jewish men were able to defy emasculation and adapt--at least temporarily--to their marginalized status as men."-- Provided by publisher.
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