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Sex and the Weimar Republic: German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis (German and European Studies) Paperback – September 14, 2015

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Management number 209059643 Release Date 2026/03/29 List Price $36.00 Model Number 209059643
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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. Read more

ISBN10 9781442626577
ISBN13 978-1442626577
Edition First Edition
Language English
Publisher University of Toronto Press
Dimensions 6 x 0.83 x 9 inches
Item Weight 1.2 pounds
Print length 360 pages
Part of series German and European Studies
Publication date September 14, 2015

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