The Hirschfeld Archives : Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture / Heike Bauer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bauer, Heike, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This work examines how death, suicide and violence shaped modern queer culture, arguing that negative experiences, as much as affirmative subculture formation, influenced the emergence of a collective sense of same-sex identity. Bauer looks for this history of violence in the work and reception of the influential sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935), and through Hirschfeld's work examines the form and collective impact of anti-queer violence in the first half of the twentieth century. Hirschfeld's archive (his library at the Institute for Sexual Sciences in Berlin) was destroyed by the Nazis in 1933, so the archive of Bauer's title is one that she's built from over a hundred published and unpublished books, articles, films and photographs.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2016 Front List Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 100098

ISBN:

9781439914342

OCLC:

987859569

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access