"This is an important collection of essays, many of them very
original and outstanding, that will further the field of history of
sexuality in general and will contribute to the German
historiography in particular." Lutz Sauerteig, University of Durham
"This volume provides a thought provoking and thorough
engagement with various aspects of Foucault's writing, at once
paying homage to core themes in the history of German sexuality and
charting a course for future research...The organization,
structure, and coherence of each section is very strong...Most
intriguing is its blend of approaches and blurring of time,
distance (the Atlantic divide in scholarship, that is), and
disciplinarity." Jennifer Evans, Carleton University
Michel Foucault's seminal "The History of Sexuality" (1976-1984)
has since its publication provided a context for the emergence of
critical historical studies of sexuality. This collection
reassesses the state of the historiography on sexuality-a field in
which the German case has been traditionally central. In many
diverse ways, the Foucauldian intervention has governed the
formation of questions in the field as well as the assumptions
about how some of these questions should be answered. It can be
argued, however, that some of these revolutionary insights have
ossified into dogmas or truisms within the field. Yet, as these
contributions meticulously reveal, those very truisms, when
revisited with a fresh eye, can lead to new, unexpected insights
into the history of sexuality, necessitating a return to and
reinterpretation of Foucault's richly complex work. This volume
will be necessary reading for students of historical sexuality as
well as for those readers in German history and German studies
generally who have an interest in the history of sexuality.
Scott Spector is Professor in the Department of History and
Professor and Chair of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Helmut Puff is Professor in the Departments of History and
Germanic Languages at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Dagmar Herzog is Distinguished Professor of History and Daniel
Rose Faculty Scholar at the Graduate Center, City University of New
York.
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