Magnus Hirschfeld and the Quest for Sexual Freedom A History of the First International Sexual Freedom Movement

Name: Magnus Hirschfeld and the Quest for Sexual Freedom A History of the First International Sexual Freedom Movement
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ISBN: 9780230104266

ISBN-10: 0230104266

ISBN-13: 9780230104266

Edition: 2010

Authors: Elena Mancini

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Against the late nineteenth-century European trend of theoretical elaborations of negative homosexual stereotypes and the legal persecution of homosexuals, German-Jewish sexologist, Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) introduced a scientific-humanistic approach to homosexual emancipation. Radical from the outset, his pioneering theorizations of gender overturned the dual sex system and revealed the artificiality of gender. Beyond destabilizing traditional concepts of masculinity and femininity and substantiating the naturalness of such phenomena as homosexual, intersexed, and transgendered identities, Hirschfeld deployed his theories to serve as the basis of his steadfast and influential campaign…

Book details

List price: $121.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 10/15/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 204
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.36" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Prologue


Acknowledgments



Early Years and Cultural Context



Hirschfeld's University Years, Early Travels, and Encounters with the Literary World



Urban Culture and Homosexuality



Jewish Identity and Medicine



Evolution of Hirschfeld's Scientific Outlook



Research Methods and Philosophy



Hirschfeld and the Importance of Sexology



The Third Sex Theory and its Cultural and Scientific Reception



Sexual Intermediacy and Transvestitism



Hirschfeld and Psychoanalysis



Hirschfeld and Degeneracy



Hirschfeld as a Clinician



Politics, War, and Activism



Hirschfeld, the Social Democrats, and Wilhelmine Sexual Politics



Homosexuality and the Politics of Effeminacy in Wilhelmine Germany: The Liebenberg Affair



Misogyny and the Anti-feminist Substrate of Homophobia



Hirschfeld and the Women's Movement



Hirschfeld and World War I



The Weimar Years



The Ernst Rï¿½hm Affair



Panhumanistic Cosmopolitianism, Exile, and Final Years



World Voyage and Sexual Ethnography



Jewish Identity and Race Discourse



Exile and Final Years



Epilogue



Chronology of Hirschfeld's Life



On Paragraph 175: A History of Germany's Anti-homosexual Law


Notes


Bibliography


Index