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Gay Berlin : birthplace of a modern identity
Author
Title
Gay Berlin : birthplace of a modern identity / Robert Beachy.
ISBN
0307473139
9780307473134
Edition
First Vintage Books edition.
Publication
New York : Vintage Books, 2015.
Copyright Notice Date
©2014
Physical Description
xx, 305 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Local Notes
BEIN 2018 4959: Number line: "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1" on title page verso indicates 1st printing. Paperbound. From the library of Samuel R. Delany.
Notes
"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knoft, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2014."--Title page verso.
Summary
Provides a detailed historical look at the surprising ways in which the uninhibited urban sexuality, sexual experimentation and medical advances of pre-Weimar Berlin created and molded our modern understanding of sexual orientation and gay identity. --From publisher description.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 24, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-295) and index.
Contents
The German invention of homosexuality
Policing homosexuality in Berlin
The first homosexual rights movement and the struggle to shape identity
The Eulenburg scandal and the politics of outing
Hans Blüher, the Wandervogel movement, and the Männerbund
Weimar sexual reform and the Institute for Sexual Science
Sex tourism and male prostitution in Weimar Berlin
Weimar politics and the struggle for legal reform.
Subjects
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Samuel R. Delany Library (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library). Reading Library.
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