Sexuality in Austria

Volume 15
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-53248-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 535 g

Reihe: Contemporary Austrian Studies

Scholars have increasingly been investigating human sexu- ality as an important field of social history in particular national cultures. This volume examines both continuities and changing patterns of sexual behavior in Austria. Sexuality in Austria reflects the broad variety of such recent research. Maria Mesner surveys the growing number of sex counseling organizations in interwar Vienna, some driven by eugenics, others by social concerns. Ties with Margaret Sanger's birth control movement in the U.S. are also documented. Ingrid Bauer and Renate Huber are the first scholars to treat the "foreign encounters" between Austrian women and occupation soldiers during the postwar quadripartite Austrian occupation regime in a comparative framework. Franz Eder traces the growing presence of sexual issues in post-World War II popular media and suggests parallels with the German case. Marcel Scheffknecht shows how Austria was not spared the changes in sexual mores during the "sexual revolution" of the 1960s and 1970s. Matti Bunzl analyses the legal penalties for homosexuality in postwar Austria and the liberation of the gay movement as a result of EU pressures after Austria joined the European Union in 1995. Peter Judson analyzes the major influence of the Catholic Church on Austrian sexuality through the lens of a recent gay and sex abuse scandals in the church hierarchy. In "romancing the foreigner" Julia Woesthoff analyzes the growing presence of foreign workers (gastarbeiter) in postwar Austria and their sexual contacts with natives. In a "non-topical essay" Katharina Wegan views the Austrian historical memory of the Austrian State Treaty through the fiftieth anniversary celebrations in 2005. Review essays and book reviews and the annual review of Austrian politics complete this volume. Sexuality in Austria will be of interest to cultural studies specialists, historians, psychologists, and sociologists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pelinka, Anton

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I: Topical Essays; Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Austria: An Introduction; Thinking about Sexuality and Gender in Vienna; The Wrath of the “Countess Merviola”: Tabloid Exposé and the Emergence of Homosexual Subjects in Vienna in 1907; Educating Reasonable Lovers: Sex Counseling in Austria in the First Half of the Twentieth Century; Sexual Encounters across (Former) Enemy Boderlines; ‘The Nationalists’ ‘Healthy Sensuality’ was followed by America’s Influence’: Sexuality and Media from National Socialism to the Sexual Revolution; Queering Austria for the New Europe; A Scandal in the Seminart; Romancing the Foreigner? “Fictitious Marriages” and the Crisis between Immigration and Human Rights; II: Forum; Memory Boom: The “Year of Reflection” 2005; Austrian Exhibition-ism: The Year 2005 and Its Commemorations of the Recent Past in Exhibition Catalogues; Of Affluence and Amnesia; III: Book Review; Gabriele Anderl and Alexandra Caruso, eds., NS-Kunstraub in Österreich und die Folgen (Innsbruck: StudienVerlag, 2005); Thomas Klestil, Der Verantwortung verpflichtet: Ansprachen und Vorträge 1992-2004, ed. Herbert Schambeck (Vienna: Verlag Österreich, 2005); Thomas Hanifle, “Im Zweifel auf Seiten der Schwachen”: Claus Gatterer, Eine Biographie (Innsbruck: Studienverlag, 2005); Hans Seidel, Österreichs Wirtschaft und Wirtschaftspolitik nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg (Vienna: Manz-Verlag, 2005); Ingrid Böhler, Dornbirn in Kriegen und Krisen: 1914-1945, Innsbrucker Forschungen zur Zeitgeschichte 23 (Innsbruck: Studien Verlag, 2005) Renate Huber, Identität in Bewegung: Zwischen Zugehörigkeit und Differe nz, Vorarlberg 1945-1965 (Innsbruck: Studien Verlag, 2004); Annual Review

Über Autor(innen)

Anton Pelinka