[PDF] Sex And The Weimar Republic eBook

Author : Laurie Marhoefer
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 23,70 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1442619570

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Liberated, licentious, or merely liberal, the sexual freedoms of Germany’s Weimar Republic have become legendary. The home of the world’s first gay rights movement, the republic embodied a progressive, secular vision of sexual liberation. Immortalized – however misleadingly – in Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories and the musical Cabaret, Weimar’s freedoms have become a touchstone for the politics of sexual emancipation. Yet, as Laurie Marhoefer shows in Sex and Weimar Republic, those sexual freedoms were only obtained at the expense of a minority who were deemed sexually disordered. In Weimar Germany, the citizen’s right to sexual freedom came with a duty to keep sexuality private, non-commercial, and respectable. Sex and the Weimar Republic examines the rise of sexual tolerance through the debates which surrounded “immoral” sexuality: obscenity, male homosexuality, lesbianism, transgender identity, heterosexual promiscuity, and prostitution. It follows the sexual politics of a swath of Weimar society ranging from sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld to Nazi stormtrooper Ernst Röhm. Tracing the connections between toleration and regulation, Marhoefer’s observations remain relevant to the politics of sexuality today.

Author : Laurie Marhoefer
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 11,31 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1442626577

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Sex and the Weimar Republic shows how, in Weimar Germany, the citizen's right to sexual freedom came with a duty to keep sexuality private, non-commercial, and respectable.

Author : Julia Roos
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 49,21 MB
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0472117343

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DIVExploring the social and political struggles over prostitution reform in the Weimar Republic/div

Author : Javier Samper Vendrell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 24,4 MB
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1487536062

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A simple man from the provinces, Friedrich Radszuweit merged popular culture, consumerism, and politics as the leader of the League for Human Rights, Germany’s first mass homosexual organization. The Seduction of Youth is the first study to focus on the League and its leader, using his position at the centre of the Weimar-era gay rights movement to tease out the diverging political strategies and contradictory tactics that distinguished the movement. By examining news articles and opinion pieces, as well as literary texts and photographs in the League’s numerous pulp magazines for homosexuals, Javier Samper Vendrell reconstructs forgotten aspects of the history of same-sex desire and subjectivity. While recognizing the possibilities of liberal rights for sexual freedom during the Weimar Republic, the League’s "respectability politics" failed in part because Radszuweit’s own publications contributed to the idea that homosexual men were considered a threat to youth, doing little to change the views of the many people who believed in homosexual seduction – a homophobic trope that endured well into the twentieth century.

Author : Anton Kaes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 10,88 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520067745

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Reproduces (translated into English) contemporary documents or writings with an introduction to each section.

Author : Eric D. Weitz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 29,48 MB
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0691183058

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"Weimar Centennial edition with a new preface by the author."--Title page.

Author : Katie Sutton
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 18,44 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0857451219

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Throughout the Weimar period the so-called “masculinization of woman” was much more than merely an outsider or subcultural phenomenon; it was central to representations of the changing female ideal, and fed into wider debates concerning the health and fertility of the German “race” following the rupture of war. Drawing on recent developments within the history of sexuality, this book sheds new light on representations and discussions of the masculine woman within the Weimar print media from 1918–1933. It traces the connotations and controversies surrounding this figure from her rise to media prominence in the early 1920s until the beginning of the Nazi period, considering questions of race, class, sexuality, and geography. By focusing on styles, bodies and identities that did not conform to societal norms of binary gender or heterosexuality, this book contributes to our understanding of gendered lives and experiences at this pivotal juncture in German history.

Author : Robert Beachy
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 20,46 MB
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0307473139

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Winner of Randy Shilts Award In the half century before the Nazis rose to power, Berlin became the undisputed gay capital of the world. Activists and medical professionals made it a city of firsts—the first gay journal, the first homosexual rights organization, the first Institute for Sexual Science, the first sex reassignment surgeries—exploring and educating themselves and the rest of the world about new ways of understanding the human condition. In this fascinating examination of how the uninhibited urban culture of Berlin helped create our categories of sexual orientation and gender identity, Robert Beachy guides readers through the past events and developments that continue to shape and influence our thinking about sex and gender to this day.

Author : Richard W. McCormick
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 12,20 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780312292980

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Richard McCormick takes a fresh look at the crisis of gender in Weimar Germany through an analysis of selected cultural texts, both literary and film, characterized under the label "New Objectivity". The New Objectivity was marked by a sober, unsentimental embrace of urban modernity, in contrast to Expressionism's horror of technology and belief in "auratic" art. This sensibility was gendered as well as contradictory: while associated with male intellectuals, New Objectivity was best symbolized by the New Woman they feared (and desired). Moving skillfully from Caligari to Dietrich, McCormick traces the crisis of gender identities, both male and female, and reveals how a variety of narratives of the time displaced an assortment of social anxieties onto sexual relations.