Lybeck Desiring Emancipation

New Women and Homosexuality in Germany, 1890-1933
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4384-5223-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Queer Politics and Cultures

Uses historical case studies to illuminate women’s claims to emancipation and to sexual subjectivity during the tumultuous Wilhelmine and Weimar periods in Germany.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lybeck, Marti M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. “Are These Women?” University Students’ Quest for a New Gender

2. Experiments in Female Masculinity: Sophia Goudstikker’s Masculine Mimicry in Turn-of the-Century Munich

3. Asserting Sexual Subjectivity in Berlin: The Proliferation of a Public Discourse of Female Homosexuality, 1900–1912

4. Denying Desire: Professional Women Facing Accusations of Homosexuality

5. Emancipation and Desire in Weimar Berlin’s Female Homosexual Public Sphere

Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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