Desiring Emancipation - New Women and Homosexuality in Germany, 1890-1933

Informationen zum Autor Marti M. Lybeck is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse. Klappentext Uses historical case studies to illuminate women's claims to emancipation and to sexual subjectivity during the tumultuous Wilhelmine and Weimar periods in Germany. Desiring Emancipation traces middle-class German women's claims to gender emancipation and sexual subjectivity in the pre-Nazi era. The emergence of homosexual identities and concepts in this same time frame provided the context for expression of individual struggles with self, femininity, and sex. The book asks how women used new concepts and opportunities to construct selves in relationship to family, society, state, and culture. Taking a queer approach, Desiring Emancipation 's goal is not to find homosexuals in history, but to analyze how women reworked categories of gender and sex. Marti M. Lybeck interrogates their desires, demonstrating that emancipation was fraught with conflict, anachronism, and disappointment. Each chapter is a microhistorical recreation of the actions, writings, contexts, and conflicts of specific groups of women. The topics include the experience of first-generation university students, public debates about female homosexuality, and the stories of three civil servants whose careers were ruined by workplace accusations of homosexuality. The book concludes with a debate between the women who joined the 1920s homosexual movement on the meanings of their new identities.

Info autore

Marti M. Lybeck is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Marti M Lybeck, Marti M. Lybeck, Lybeck Marti M.
• Editore: State University of New York Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 09.07.2014
• EAN: 9781438452210
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-5221-0
• Pagine: 300
• Dimensioni: 165 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Serie: Suny Series in Queer Politics; Suny Series in Queer Politics; SUNY series in Queer Politics and Cultures
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Women, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, Lesbian studies, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics