Mancini Magnus Hirschfeld and the Quest for Sexual Freedom

A History of the First International Sexual Freedom Movement
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-230-11439-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 204 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture

This volume is the first full-length study on pioneering sexologist and sexual rights activist, Magnus Hirschfeld, that examines his impact on the politics and culture of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Germany and the value of his rationalist humanist approach for contemporary debates on sexual rights.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mancini, E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: EARLY YEARS AND CULTURAL CONTEXT * Hirschfeld's University Years, Early Travels and Encounters with the Literary World * Urban Culture and Homosexuality * Jewish Identity and Medicine * PART II: EVOLUTION OF HIRSCHFELD'S SCIENTIFIC OUTLOOK * Research Methods and Philosophy * Hirschfeld and the Importance of Sexology * The Third Sex Theory and its Cultural and Scientific Reception * Sexual Intermediacy and Transvestitism * Hirschfeld and Psychoanalysis * Hirschfeld and Degeneracy * Hirschfeld as a Clinician * PART III: POLITICS, ACTIVISM, AND WAR * Hirschfeld, the Social Democrats and Wilhelmine Sexual Politics * Homosexuality and the Politics of Effeminacy in Wilhelmine Germany: The "Liebenberg" Affair * Misogyny and the Anti-feminist Substrate of Homophobia * Hirschfeld and the Women's Movement * Hirschfeld and WWI * The Weimar Years * The Ernst Röhm Affair * PART IV: PANHUMANISTIC COSMOPOLITANISM, EXILE AND FINAL YEARS * World Voyage and Sexual Ethnography * Jewish Identity and Race Discourse * Exile and Final Years * Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Elena Mancini received her Ph.D. in German Studies from Rutgers University. She has taught at Hunter College, Montclair University, and Rutgers, and is the Culture Editor for Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture.