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SEX AND THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC
GERMAN HOMOSEXUAL EMANCIPATION AND THE RISE OF THE NAZIS |
By: |
Laurie Marhoefer |
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Paperback |

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ISBN 10: |
1442626577 |
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9781442626577 |
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UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS |
Pub. date: |
14 September, 2015 |
Series: |
German & European Studies |
Pages: |
360 |
Description: |
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. |
Synopsis: |
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 Rohm.Tracing the connections between toleration and regulation, Marhoefer's observations remain relevant to the politics of sexuality today. |
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University of Toronto Press |
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