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Sex and the Weimar Republic - German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis (Paperback)
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Sex and the Weimar Republic - German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis (Paperback)
Series: German and European Studies
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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 Rohm.
Tracing the connections between toleration and regulation,
Marhoefer's observations remain relevant to the politics of
sexuality today.
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