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Item Details
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SEX AND THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC
GERMAN HOMOSEXUAL EMANCIPATION AND THE RISE OF THE NAZIS |
| By: |
Laurie Marhoefer |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£48.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1442649151 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781442649156 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
14 October, 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. |
| Illustrations: |
9 |
| Publication: |
Canada |
| Imprint: |
University of Toronto Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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