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Title: The Hirschfeld Archives
Condition: New
Subtitle: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture
Author: Heike Bauer
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1439914338
EAN: 9781439914335
ISBN: 9781439914335
Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: LGBTQ+, Gender Sex & Relationships, History
Release Date: 15/05/2017
Description: Influential sexologist and activist Magnus Hirschfeld founded Berlin's Institute of Sexual Sciences in 1919 as a home and workplace to study homosexual rights activism and support transgender people. It was destroyed by the Nazis in 1933. This episode in history prompted Heike Bauer to ask, Is violence an intrinsic part of modern queer culture? The Hirschfeld Archives answers this critical question by examining the violence that shaped queer existence in the first part of the twentieth century. Hirschfeld himself escaped the Nazis, and many of his papers and publications survived. Bauer examines his accounts of same-sex life from published and unpublished writings, as well as books, articles, diaries, films, photographs and other visual materials, to scrutinize how violence-including persecution, death and suicide-shaped the development of homosexual rights and political activism.The Hirschfeld Archives brings these fragments of queer experience together to reveal many unknown and interesting accounts of LGBTQ life in the early twentieth century, but also to illuminate the fact that homosexual rights politics were haunted from the beginning by racism, colonial brutality, and gender violence.
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Width: 18mm
Item Weight: 313g
Book Series: Sexuality Studies
Language: English
Release Year: 2017

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