Sex after Fascism : Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany / Dagmar Herzog.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herzog, Dagmar, 1961- lat, author.

Series:

ACLS Fellows’ publications.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex--Germany--History--20th century.

Sex.

Germany--Moral conditions.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2007]

Summary:

What is the relationship between sexual and other kinds of politics? Few societies have posed this puzzle as urgently, or as disturbingly, as Nazi Germany. What exactly were Nazism's sexual politics? Were they repressive for everyone, or were some individuals and groups given sexual license while others were persecuted, tormented, and killed? How do we make sense of the evolution of postwar interpretations of Nazism's sexual politics? What do we make of the fact that scholars from the 1960's to the present have routinely asserted that the Third Reich was "sex-hostile"? In response to these and other questions, Sex after Fascism fundamentally reconceives central topics in twentieth-century German history. Among other things, it changes the way we understand the immense popular appeal of the Nazi regime and the nature of antisemitism, the role of Christianity in the consolidation of post fascist conservatism in the West, the countercultural rebellions of the 1960's-1970's, as well as the negotiations between government and citizenry under East German communism. Beginning with a new interpretation of the Third Reich's sexual politics and ending with the revisions of Germany's past facilitated by communism's collapse, Sex after Fascism examines the intimately intertwined histories of capitalism and communism, pleasure and state policies, religious renewal and secularizing trends. A history of sexual attitudes and practices in twentieth-century Germany, investigating such issues as contraception, pornography, and theories of sexual orientation, Sex after Fascism also demonstrates how Germans made sexuality a key site for managing the memory and legacies of Nazism and the Holocaust.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE. Sex and the Third Reich

CHAPTER TWO. The Fragility of Heterosexuality

CHAPTER THREE. Desperately Seeking Normality

CHAPTER FOUR. The Morality of Pleasure

CHAPTER FIVE. The Romance of Socialism

CHAPTER SIX. Antifascist Bodies

Conclusion

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-347) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9781299988156

1299988156

9781400843329

1400843324

OCLC:

1046610938

Publisher Number:

2027/heb04507 hdl