Special Issue of La revue de l’histoire de la Shoah on Gender and the Holocaust

La revue de l’histoire de la Shoah is planning an issue focused on Gender and the Holocaust.

The leading French-language journal on the Holocaust, La Revue is published quarterly by la Mémorial de la Shoah. (https://www.cairn.info/revue-d-histoire-de-la-shoah.htm). For this issue, La Revue is pleased to cooperate with Eastern European Holocaust Studies.

This special issue will explore a variety of topics, demographics, and geographies.

It intends to cover the whole of Europe as well as to explore the role and experiences of victims, survivors, helpers, resisters, perpetrators, beneficiaries, and bystanders. Gender, as a fluid term, does not apply only to women and we encourage papers that also address the male and trans experience. Similarly, we welcome proposals to analyze situations of occupation/collaboration in terms of all possible forms of gendered relations between Nazis and local populations.

For this issue, the Revue is teaming up with the journal Eastern European Holocaust Studies (https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/eehs/html#submit). Each journal will publish its own special issue on Gender and the Holocaust. By doing so simultaneously, we ensure a wider distribution and discussion of cutting-edge scholarship.

Suggested themes include but are not limited to gender and:

• everyday life inside and outside of the ghettos, camps and killing centres
• hiding
• age/aging
• bodies and sexuality
• intersectionality i.e. of gender, ethnicity, class (and so forth)
• parenting (motherhood/and or fatherhood) or family life under occupation
• youth movements
• religious life
• perpetrators/bystanders
• local populations
• liberation
• post-war trials
• remembrance/representation

We also welcome a historiographical overview of the development of research on the topic of gender and the Holocaust to frame the issue.

We would be pleased to have submissions from established and early-career academics as well as graduate students. We will proceed as follows:

• June 28, 2024: submission of a 500-700 word proposal in English and a short bio
• July 28, 2024: notification of article proposals accepted
• November 15, 2024: deadline to submit the first draft of the articles (maximum 50,000 characters including notes and spaces)
• January 2025 joint workshop to discuss the draft articles and promote the harmonization of the special issue together with East European Holocaust Studies
• February 15-June 30, 2025: peer-review evaluation (at the end of this process, the article will be definitively accepted or rejected).
• September 15, 2025: deadline for submission of final articles, translation into French (if necessary) and editing
• March 2026: publication of the special issue

To submit your article proposal or if you have any questions or would like more information please email rhsgender@gmail.com

Editors of Special Issue on Gender and the Holocaust:

Deborah Barton, Université de Montréal, member of editorial committee of La Revue, deborah.barton@umontreal.ca

Andrea Peto, Central European University, editor in chief of East European Holocaust Studies, guest editor La revue, petoa@ceu.edu

Fabien Théofilakis, University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, member of editorial committee of La Revue, fabien.theofilakis@univ-paris1.fr

Zoe Waxman, University of Oxford, guest editor La revue,  zoe.waxman@ames.ox.ac.uk

https://www.memorialdelashoah.org/appel-a-contribution-rhs-n223.html