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Not Straight from Germany
Title
Not Straight from Germany / Michael Thomas Taylor, Annette Timm, and Rainer Herrn, editors.
ISBN
9780472122851
0472122851
Publication
Ann Arbor [Michigan] : University of Michigan Press, [2017]
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
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Summary
Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science was founded in Berlin in 1919 as a place of research, political advocacy, counseling, and public education. Inspired by the world's first gay rights organizations, it was closely allied with other groups fighting for sexual reform and women's rights, and was destroyed in 1933 as the first target of the Nazi book burnings. Not Straight from Germany examines the legacy of that history, combining essays and a lavish array of visual materials. Scholarly essays investigate the ways in which sex became public in early 20th-century Germany, contributing to a growing awareness of Hirschfeld's influence on histories of sexuality while also widening the perspective beyond the lens of identity politics. Two visual sourcebooks and catalog essays on an exhibition of contemporary artists' responses to the Hirschfeld historical materials interrogate the modes of visual representation that Hirschfeld employed by re-imagining the public visibility of his institute from a contemporary perspective. The archival material includes stunning, never-before-published images from Hirschfeld's institute that challenge many received ideas, while the scholarly and art catalog essays explore collaboration and dialogue as methods of research and activism that resonate beyond the academy to pressing issues of public concern.
Variant and related titles
UMPEBC backlist 2011-2019.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 16, 2022
Series
Social history, popular culture and politics in Germany
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
introduction : sexual publics and sexual citizenship from Hirschfeld to the present / Annette F. Timm
part one. From the Institute for Sexual Science to PopSex!
Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science as archive, museum, and exhibition / Michael Thomas Taylor
Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science : a visual sourcebook / Rainer Herrn with Michael Thomas Taylor and Annette F. Timm
Sexology's beholders : the Exhibition PopSex! in Calgary / Sabine Kriebel
part two. Sexual publics and popular culture
Moral panics
Aroused authorities : state efforts to regulate sex and smut in the German mass media, 1880-1930 / Gary D. Stark
"Shameful and dangerous women" : sexual promiscuity in World War I Germany / Lisa M. Todd
Promenading the halls : theaters as sexual spaces in London, Paris, and Berlin around 1900 / Tobias Becker
Looking through sex
Anatomy is sublime : the photographic activity of Wilhelm von Gloeden and Magnus Hirschfeld / Kathrin Peters
Per scientiam ad justitiam : Magnus Hirschfeld's episteme of biological publicity / Kevin S. Amidon
Of rats and men : rejuvenation and the Steinach film / Rainer Herrn and Christine N. Brinckmann
Sex in print
Sentimentalizing the case study : Emma Trosse's deviant genre / Mara Taylor and Michael Thomas Taylor
Hypermasculine warriors versus effeminate men : masculinity and sexuality in print media by German veterans of the Great War / Jason Crouthamel
Advertising and Magnus Hirschfeld's commercial legacy in Nazi Germany / Pamela E. Swett
Consuming sex : a photo-essay on the legacy of Magnus Hirschfeld in the West German erotica industry, 1945-1975 / Elizabeth D. Heineman.
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