Items related to Desiring Emancipation: New Women and Homosexuality...
Desiring Emancipation: New Women and Homosexuality in Germany, 1890-1933 (SUNY Series in Queer Politics and Cultures) - Hardcover
Uses historical case studies to illuminate women’s claims to emancipation and to sexual subjectivity during the tumultuous Wilhelmine and Weimar periods in Germany.
Desiring Emancipation traces middle-class German women’s claims to gender emancipation and sexual subjectivity in the pre-Nazi era. The emergence of homosexual identities and concepts in this same time frame provided the context for expression of individual struggles with self, femininity, and sex. The book asks how women used new concepts and opportunities to construct selves in relationship to family, society, state, and culture. Taking a queer approach, Desiring Emancipation’s goal is not to find homosexuals in history, but to analyze how women reworked categories of gender and sex. Marti M. Lybeck interrogates their desires, demonstrating that emancipation was fraught with conflict, anachronism, and disappointment.
Each chapter is a microhistorical recreation of the actions, writings, contexts, and conflicts of specific groups of women. The topics include the experience of first-generation university students, public debates about female homosexuality, and the stories of three civil servants whose careers were ruined by workplace accusations of homosexuality. The book concludes with a debate between the women who joined the 1920s homosexual movement on the meanings of their new identities.
Desiring Emancipation traces middle-class German women’s claims to gender emancipation and sexual subjectivity in the pre-Nazi era. The emergence of homosexual identities and concepts in this same time frame provided the context for expression of individual struggles with self, femininity, and sex. The book asks how women used new concepts and opportunities to construct selves in relationship to family, society, state, and culture. Taking a queer approach, Desiring Emancipation’s goal is not to find homosexuals in history, but to analyze how women reworked categories of gender and sex. Marti M. Lybeck interrogates their desires, demonstrating that emancipation was fraught with conflict, anachronism, and disappointment.
Each chapter is a microhistorical recreation of the actions, writings, contexts, and conflicts of specific groups of women. The topics include the experience of first-generation university students, public debates about female homosexuality, and the stories of three civil servants whose careers were ruined by workplace accusations of homosexuality. The book concludes with a debate between the women who joined the 1920s homosexual movement on the meanings of their new identities.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author:
Marti M. Lybeck is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherState Univ of New York Pr
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1438452217
- ISBN 13 9781438452210
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages289
- Rating
Buy New
Learn more about this copy
US$ 94.77
Shipping:
US$ 12.35
From United Kingdom to U.S.A.
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Stock Image
Desiring Emancipation: New Women and Homosexuality in Germany, 1890 1933
Published by
State Univ of New York Pr
(2014)
ISBN 10: 1438452217
ISBN 13: 9781438452210
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 256 pages. 9.25x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # __1438452217
Buy New
US$ 94.77
Convert currency
Stock Image
Desiring Emancipation: New Women and Homosexuality in Germany, 1890-1933
Published by
State University of New York Press
(2014)
ISBN 10: 1438452217
ISBN 13: 9781438452210
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. Seller Inventory # B9781438452210
Buy New
US$ 103.65
Convert currency