regina mühlhäuser

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"

1,665 Followers 1,191 Following 87 Posts Joined Dec 2023
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society | Vol 51, No 2

The Winter 2026 SIGNS Journal issue is now available! This issue provides a rich commentary on the nature of feminist resistance informed by ethnographic research, including a special Ask a Feminist interview with Malala Yousafzai and her father. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/signs/20...

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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.

“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.”

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Die "Caren #Miosga"- Redaktion hat mir schnell geantwortet. Bin nun umso mehr irritiert: #Rechtsextremismus darf für Demokrat:innen niemals "umstritten" sein, sondern ist selbstverständlich mit klarer Haltung abzulehnen. Egal in wie vielen Parlamenten Rechtsextremist:innen sitzen. #noAfD #ARD

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What did Audre Lorde say about the power of the erotic?

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(S+) An einem Erfurter Gymnasium missbrauchen zwei Lehrer jahrelang Schülerinnen – eine Rekonstruktion In Erfurt missbrauchten zwei Lehrer jahrelang ihre Schülerinnen. Nun wurde auch der zweite verurteilt. Erstmals erzählen drei der Frauen ihre Geschichte, teilen Tagebucheinträge, Chatverläufe, E-Mails...

Diese unfassbar mutigen jungen Frauen.
Diese unfassbar widerwärtigen Typen.
Dieses unfassbar räudige System, das sie geschützt hat.

www.spiegel.de/panorama/jus...

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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.

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...

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How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.

I wrote about the Epstein files (gift link) www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...

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

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/

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Single frame. Title: “[redacted]” A line of early teen? girls looking at the viewer. Behind them, silhouettes of four generic men, some with hand on shoulders of the girls, which have been through six iterations of redaction to satisfy the newspaper’s lawyers that none are identifiable.

A heavily redacted cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.

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oil painting La mujer barbuda/Magdalena Ventura con su marido; a bearded woman nursing her baby while standing up. 
Queer in/visibility in pink, plus a QR code to the conference website

Call for Papers, please circulate!

Ethics of queer in/visibility
Heidelberg, September 30 - October 2, 2026
queer-in-visibility.de

Keynote speakers:
J Calder
(Linguistics, University of Colorado Boulder)
Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social
(History, University of Warwick)

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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:
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Europäische Frauenbewegungszeitschriften, Foto: privat.

Alina Müller hat für z|o mit den Initiatorinnen des Forschungsprojekts „FemMag – Feminist Magazines in Western Europe“ Sonja Levsen und Kassandra Hammel über den aktuellen Stand des Projekts sowie Chancen und Herausforderungen gesprochen.

➡️ tinyurl.com/bmu4d892

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Photo of various zines on a black surface

Riot Grrrl zines, continuation of a long tradition of feminist alternative and grassroots publishing, designs and artworks #womensart

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Revisiting the “Comfort Girls” of Report 49: Race, Sex, and Information in Asia’s War for Empire Abstract. In 1944, a Japanese American intelligence officer stationed in Ledo, India, unwittingly composed a famous historical document: “Japanese Prisoner

They fixed it! My article is now open access. academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...

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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 ...

'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.'

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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.„

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Yep. Every day is a good day for sharing serious bibliographical work. 💡🙏👇👇👇✍️

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🔴 Gestern wurde im Kulturausschuss des Bundestages über die künftige Gedenkstättenkonzeption beraten.

❓Eine zentrale Frage war, ob auch die Aufarbeitung der Kolonialverbrechen aufgenommen werden soll.

▶ Einen Mittschnitt und die Stellungnahmen der Sachverständigen findet ihr hier: bit.ly/4joxlSN

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

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/

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Deutscher Bundestag - Live

❗Jetzt im Parlamentsfernsehen - Anhörung zu der Gedenkstättenkonzeption des Bundes ⬇️

www.bundestag.de/mediathek/live

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Program – 'Till Death Do Us Part': Four Epochs of Violence in Every Family in Russia – what makes it Russian? (FEVER)

At the National Library of Lithuania today and tomorrow to discuss imperial family violence in 19th & 20th centuries with @mmuravyeva.bsky.social @joannabourke.bsky.social and other colleagues and friends 📃https://blogs.helsinki.fi/fourepochsofviolence/program/

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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

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(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?

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...

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Sexy Rassismus: Dagmar Herzog Zerlegt die Körperpolitik der AfD YouTube video by Nullpunkt – mit Hanno Hauenstein

Interview übrigens hier zu sehen:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gka7...

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Ein persönlicher Bericht, warum die SWR "Recherche" über #MeToo und Machtmissbrauch in der Klassik so gar nicht geht:

metooklassik.wordpress.com/2025/12/07/a...

#ReportMainz

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Recovery History Oral History – Sexual Harms Research Alliance I’m Ruth Beecher and this is my colleague Katie Elliott. Over the last few months, we’ve started recording the life histories of survivors of childhood sexual abuse for the Recovery Histories project....

Web: shra.bbk.ac.uk/blog/recovery-history-oral-history/

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

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

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Sex and the Nazi Soldier Sex and the Nazi Soldier

Interested in gender & military?

Check out the Advances in Critical Military Studies series, ed by @victoriambasham.bsky.social & Sarah Bulmer. I am delighted that Sex & the Nazi Soldier appeared there.
This WE books are 50% off @edinburghup.bsky.social
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-sex-and...

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Wie KI-generierte Bilder die NS-Geschichte verfälschen Bilder, die scheinbar Szenen aus Konzentrationslager zeigen, fluten derzeit soziale Medien. Das Problem: Sie sind durch KI erstellt.

Wichtiger Text von Amely Wild und @thomasradlmaier.bsky.social über KI-generierte Bilder, die die Geschichte des Holocaust und der Konzentrationslager verfälschen, die gerade die sozialen Medien fluten.

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Vergewaltigung unter Betäubung – Pelicot-Fall in Österreich - Thema vom 24.11.2025 Ein Mann aus dem Bezirk Bruck an der Leitha soll seine Ehefrau ohne ihr Wissen mit Drogen bewusstlos gemacht und vergewaltigt haben. Der mutmaßliche Täter wurde vor dem Landesgericht Korneuburg noch n...

Achtung, ein krasser Fall von sexualisierter Gewalt - aber ein wichtiger Beitrag bei "Thema" gestern:

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