ISBN:
9781487555610
,
9781487555634
,
1487555636
,
148755561X
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Pretsell, Douglas Urning
DDC:
306.76/62094309034
Keywords:
Gay men Identity 19th century
;
History
;
Gay activists History 19th century
;
Homosexuels masculins - Allemagne - Identité - Histoire - 19e siècle
;
Activistes homosexuels - Allemagne - Histoire - 19e siècle
;
HISTORY / Europe / Germany
Abstract:
"In 1864, the German jurist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs coined the term "urning" as a word for same-sex attracted men. Over the next few years, first anonymously and then publicly, he campaigned against the public persecution of these men. "Urnings" engaged with Ulrichs to negotiate the finer points of their new identities and then set about trying to change the world around them. In Urning, Douglas Pretsell writes of same-sex attracted men in German-speaking Europe who used the neologism "urning" as a personal identity in the late nineteenth century. This was in the period before other terms such as "homosexual" gained currency. Drawing on letters, memoirs, and psychiatric case studies, the book uses first-hand autobiographic accounts to map out the contours of urning society. Urning explores the activist attempts of individuals seeking to transform society, even though they had no formal organization and, after Ulrichs left the scene, no spokesperson. As the century drew to a close, the efforts of Ulrichs and his followers paved the way for the launch of the world's first queer rights organization. Urning argues that these men were self-identified, self-constructed agents of their own destinies."--
Description / Table of Contents:
The First Urning: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, 1825-1895 -- From Page to Personhood: The Transmission of Urningtum, 1864-1868 -- Two Trials: Sensation, Horror, and the Urning in the Public Sphere, 1867-1870 -- Sins of the City: Karl Maria Kertbeny and the Social Cross-Dressers, 1865-1880 -- The Matchmaker of Switzerland: Jakob Rudolf Forster's Grassroots Activism in Germanic Switzerland, 1878-1897 -- Queering Psychiatry: Autobiographical Lobbying of Richard von Krafft-Ebing, 1864-1901 -- Belling the Cat: Adolf Glaser's Discreet Police Liaison in Berlin, 1878-1897 -- The Comradely Uranian: John Addington Symonds and the English Translation of the Urning, 1889-1893.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487555634
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487555634
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