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From the turn of the twentieth century to the 1950s, a group of
transgender people on both sides of the Atlantic created
communities that profoundly shaped the history and study of
sexuality. By exchanging letters and pictures among themselves they
established private networks of affirmation and trust, and by
submitting their stories and photographs to medical journals and
popular magazines they sought to educate both doctors and the
public. Others of My Kind draws on archives in Europe and North
America to tell the story of this remarkable transatlantic
transgender community. This book uncovers threads of connection
between Germany, the United States, and the Netherlands to discover
the people who influenced the work of authorities like Magnus
Hirschfeld, Harry Benjamin, and Alfred Kinsey not only with their
clinical presentations, but also with their personal relationships.
It explores the ethical and analytical challenges that come with
the study of what was once private, secret, or unacceptable to say.
With more than 170 colour and black and white illustrations,
including many stunning, previously unpublished photographs, Others
of My Kind celebrates the faces, lives, and personal networks of
those who drove twentieth-century transgender history.
A 2021 CHOICE Outstanding Title From the turn of the twentieth
century to the 1950s, a group of transgender people on both sides
of the Atlantic created communities that profoundly shaped the
history and study of sexuality. By exchanging letters and pictures
among themselves they established private networks of affirmation
and trust, and by submitting their stories and photographs to
medical journals and popular magazines they sought to educate both
doctors and the public. Others of My Kind draws on archives in
Europe and North America to tell the story of this remarkable
transatlantic transgender community. This book uncovers threads of
connection between Germany, the United States, and the Netherlands
to discover the people who influenced the work of authorities like
Magnus Hirschfeld, Harry Benjamin, and Alfred Kinsey not only with
their clinical presentations, but also with their personal
relationships. It explores the ethical and analytical challenges
that come with the study of what was once private, secret, or
unacceptable to say. With more than 170 colour and black and white
illustrations, including many stunning, previously unpublished
photographs, Others of My Kind celebrates the faces, lives, and
personal networks of those who drove twentieth-century transgender
history.
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.
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