The Hirschfeld Archives

This work examines how death, suicide and violence shaped modern queer culture, arguing that negative experiences, as much as affirmative subculture formation, influenced the emergence of a collective sense of same-sex identity. Bauer looks for this history of violence in the work and reception of t...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Bauer, Heike
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Veröffentlicht:
Temple University Press 2017
Zusammenfassung:
This work examines how death, suicide and violence shaped modern queer culture, arguing that negative experiences, as much as affirmative subculture formation, influenced the emergence of a collective sense of same-sex identity. Bauer looks for this history of violence in the work and reception of the influential sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935), and through Hirschfelds work examines the form and collective impact of anti-queer violence in the first half of the twentieth century. Hirschfelds archive (his library at the Institute for Sexual Sciences in Berlin) was destroyed by the Nazis in 1933, so the archive of Bauers title is one that shes built from over a hundred published and unpublished books, articles, films and photographs
Umfang:
1 electronic resource ( p.)
Anmerkungen:
English
ISBN:
9781439914328
9781439914342
Zugangseinschränkungen:
Open Access
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