regina mühlhäuser

@remueh.bsky.social

| gender, sexuality/ies, rape and other forms of sexual violence in war & conflict | researcher https://www.his-online.de/en/staff/person-details/person/regina-muehlhaeuser/ | co-founder https://warandgender.net | author of "Sex and the Nazi Soldier"

“Scholarly attention has rightly focused on the forced reproduction of enslaved Black women, but that focus need not come at the expense of understanding the position of enslaved Black men, who were also denied sexual autonomy, including the ability to choose with whom they would have children.”

Black Men Endured Sexual Exploitation Under Slavery. Their Story Is Rarely Told.

Historian Thomas A. Foster discusses his new book Rethinking Rufus: Sexual Violations of Enslaved Men.

truthout.org

I wrote about how the women Epstein and co victimized have been minimized and ignored as individuals even in popular discourse about the very abuse they endured—and how the legal system has punished them and other women, not helped them, for daring to come forward. spitfirenews.com/p/even-the-m...

Even the most famous victims are silenced

From the Epstein files to Amber Heard, we obsess over victims while denying their own right to speak.

spitfirenews.com

Check out Sally Kitch’s Feminist Frictions essay, “Forged in Fire: Constructing Women’s Studies Knowledge for Social Engagement, 1979-2019,” which reflects on the ways women’s studies intersects with (or diverges from) social activism. Read the full essay here: signsjournal.org/kitch/

Feminist Frictions: Forged in Fire: Constructing Women’s Studies Knowledge for Social Engagement, 1979-2019

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signsjournal.org

Eine Gruppe von Professor:innen forderte in einem Brief an die Hochschulleitung der HU Berlin den Schutz eines ihrer Kollegen, dem mehrere Personen Machtmissbrauch, zum Teil sexualisierte Übergriffigkeit vorgeworfen hatten. Ein Brief, der zahlreiche Fragen aufwirft. Unsere Stellungnahme dazu: 1/17

Leonid Schneider@forbetterscience.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Schneider Shorts 23.01.2026 – Marginalised and isolated in academic publishing activities forbetterscience.com/2026/01/23/s...

'The evidence review accompanying the strategy identifies universities as effective settings for prevention interventions, with the strongest evidence base around bystander programmes aimed at preventing sexual violence.'

Students and the strategy to halve violence against women and girls

Launching the Westminster government’s strategy to halve violence against women and girls (VAWG) on Radio 4 on Thursday, Home Office minister Jess Phillips said that she would use “every single lever ...

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„So forderte der polnische Botschafter in Deutschland einen Mitarbeiter einer deutschen Gedenkstätte dazu auf, Rossoliński-Liebes geplanten Vortrag in der Berliner Gedenkstätte Topographie des Terrors Ende November abzusagen, was dann auch geschah.„

Jüdische Allgemeine@juedischeonline.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Jan Grabowski fragt in einem Gastbeitrag die deutschen Historiker, warum sie es unwidersprochen stehen lassen, wenn ein Holocaust-Experte für seine Forschungsarbeit diskreditiert wird.

Today is the official publication day of our Shattered Liberation co-edited volume. It is open access and already available for free download in your libraries. This book wouldn't be possible without the expertise and perseverance of our brilliant contributors. www.press.purdue.edu/9781626712195/

Shattered Liberation

Shattered Liberation: Sexualized Violence Against Holocaust Survivors, 1943–1946 challenges the notion of joyous liberation of Holocaust survivors by the R...

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Held between 20-24 October 1975, the World Congress for the International Women's Year in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) saw sex equality as inseparable from struggles against other systemic forms of violence, such as racism, colonialism, and global economic inequalities. #FeministHistory

History Workshop@historyworkshop.org.uk · 8mo ago

What insights can feminists gain from revisiting the 1975 World Congress for International Women's Year? Natali Moreira explores this overlooked event using the Women of the Whole World journal archived at @fotwl.bsky.social 🗃️✊

Das Schweigen über Wehrmachtsbordelle Viele europäische Frauen wurden im Zweiten Weltkrieg von deutschen Soldaten zur Prostitution gezwungen. Nach dem Krieg erhielten sie keinerlei Entschädigung. Warum? Von Deborah Hohmann www.spiegel.de/geschichte/z...

(S+) Zweiter Weltkrieg: Das Schweigen über Wehrmachtsbordelle

Viele europäische Frauen wurden im Zweiten Weltkrieg von deutschen Soldaten zur Prostitution gezwungen. Nach dem Krieg erhielten sie keinerlei Entschädigung. Warum?

spiegel.de

Had dinner with Urvashi Butalia last week, discussing SVAC. Now re-reading The Other Side of Silence. Voices from the Partition of India. Such a brilliant book. Not only for the insights it offers but also for the ways she gives the historical actors room to speak for themselves A feminist classic

Book Cover The other side of silence, Duke UP 2000.