After the history of sexuality : German genealogies with and beyond Foucault / edited by Scott Spector, Helmut Puff, and Dagmar Herzog.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Spector, Scott, 1959-

Puff, Helmut.

Herzog, Dagmar, 1961-

Series:

Spektrum (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 5.

Spektrum (New York, N.Y.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality--Germany--History--20th century.

Homosexuality.

Gay men--Germany--History--20th century.

Gay men.

Lesbians--Germany--History--20th century.

Lesbians.

Sex--History--20th century.

Sex.

History.

Germany.

Physical Description:

310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, [2012]

Summary:

This collection will be of interest only to scholars of Michel Foucalt and Foucault-school sexuality studies, particularly those specializing in the history of Germany. The essays mix mostly German historical material with glosses on the work of Michel Foucault; historical individuals and situations are primarily seen as a means to discuss Foucauldian theory. The collection focuses mostly on Foucauldian sexual concerns: state coercion, prostitution, and alternative sexuality, mostly but not exclusively male homosexuality. The essay on transsexuality chooses to describe transsexual people in terms that transsexual people and civil rights organizations consider offensive and discriminatory. The book is divided into three sections: the first deals with German events or situations from before the mid-19th century; the second deals with Imperial and 20th-century German subjects, and the last is centered on contemporary political debates through the lens of academic French postmodernism. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

After the history of sexuality? : periodicities, subjectivities, ethics / Scott Spector

After the history of (male) homosexuality / Helmut Puff

Sexual identity and other aspects of 'modern' sexuality : new chronologies, same old problem? / Merry Wiesner-Hanks

Interior states and sexuality in early modern Germany / Ulinka Rublack

Saying it with flowers : post-Foucauldian literary history and the poetics of taboo in a premodern German love song (Walther von der Vogelweide's Under der Linden) / Andreas Krass

Early nineteenth-century sexual radicalism : Heinrich Hössli and the liberals of his day / Robert Deam Tobin

Anna Rüling, Michel Foucault, and the 'tactical polyvalence' of the female homosexual / Kirsten Leng

To police and protect : the surveillance of homosexuality in Imperial Berlin / Robert Beachy

Soliciting fantasies : knowing and not-knowing about male prostitution by soldiers in Imperial Germany / Jeffrey Schneider

Between normalization and resistance : prostitutes' professional identities and political organization in Weimar Germany / Julia Roos

Writing love, feeling shame : rethinking respectability in the Weimar homosexual women's movement / Marti Lybeck

Transsexual : herculine Barbin meets 'liebe Marta / Philipp Sarasin

Beyond freedom : a return to subjectivity in the history of sexuality / Tracie Matysik

Homosexuality in the sexual ethics of the 1930s : a values debate in the culture wars between conservatism, liberalism, and moral-national renewal / Andreas Pretzel

Socialist eugenics and homosexuality in the GDR : the case of Günter Dörner / Florian G. Mildenberger

Sex, sentiment, and socialism : relationship counseling in the GDR in the wake of the 1965 Family Law Code / Erik Huneke

Longing, lust, violence, liberation : discourses on sexuality on the radical left in West Germany, 1969-1972 / Massimo Perinelli

Postscript : tomorrow sex will be good again / Dagmar Herzog.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [287] - 297) and index.

ISBN:

9780857453730

0857453734

9780857459374

0857459376

9780857453747

0857453742

OCLC:

756045409