Women in War

Kjersti Ericsson is a professor emerita of criminology at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo. She has written extensively on gender issues and on marginalized children.

Contents: Prologue, Sanna Ørsjødal Brattland. Part I Frames: Introduction, Kjersti Ericsson; Women and war, Kristen P. Williams. Part II Suffering and Survival: Norwegian Jewish women: wartime agency - post-war silence, Irene Levin; Female forced labourers from ‘the East’ - a forgotten part of Norwegian war history, Marianne Neerland Soleim; Conflict-related sexual violence, Anette Bringedal Houge; ‘There were also a few women imprisoned at Falstad’: the history of female prisoners in a former SS camp 1942-1945, Jon Reitan. Part III Contested Relations: Gendered relations in war: Norway - a case study, Claudia Lenz; Different, insignificant, dangerous? Gay men and lesbians before, during and after the war, Kristin Hobson; Women in darkness, Unni Rustad and Kjersti Ericsson; Love and war - Norwegian women in consensual sexual relationships with German soldiers, Kjersti Ericsson. Part IV In the Aftermath: ‘Routine office work’: Norwegian Stapo women in war and post-war trials, Per Ole Johansen; Accused of being ‘German whores’: the internment of the so-called ‘German girls’, Knut Papendorf; Shame and silence - the experience of German-Norwegian war children, Kjersti Ericsson and Eva Simonsen; Women, war, violence and peace-making - international developments, Inger Skjelsbæk. Index.