ISBN:
9781487549626
,
9781487549633
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xix, 320 pages)
,
illustrations (some color)
Series Statement:
German and European studies 51
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Schneider, Jeffrey Uniform fantasies
DDC:
306.76/620943
Keywords:
Germany Uniforms
;
Social aspects
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Germany - Heer
;
Gay military personnel Sexual behavior
;
Closeted gays
;
Coming out (Sexual orientation)
;
Masculinity
;
Gender identity
;
Closeted gays
;
Coming out (Sexual orientation)
;
Gender identity
;
Masculinity
;
Military policy
;
Uniforms - Social aspects
;
Germany Military policy
;
Germany
;
Deutsches Reich Heer
;
Homosexualität
;
LGBT
;
Geschichte 1871-1918
Abstract:
"Starting in the nineteenth century in Germany, colourful military uniforms became a locus for various queer male fantasies, fostering an underground sexual economy of male prostitution as well as a political project to exploit the army's prestige for queer emancipation. In the first decade of the twentieth century, however, a series of scandals derailed this emancipatory project. Simultaneously, public debates began to invoke homosexuality, sadism, transvestism, and other sexological concepts to criticize military policies and practices. In pursuing the threads with which queer authors and activists stitched their fantasies about uniforms, Jeffrey Schneider offers fresh perspectives on key debates over military secrecy, disciplinary abuses in the army, and German militarism. Drawing on a vast trove of materials ranging from sexological case studies, trial transcripts, and parliamentary debates to queer activist tracts, autobiographies, and literary texts, Uniform Fantasies uncovers a particularly modern set of concerns about such topics as outing closeted homosexuals, the presence of gays in the military, and whether men in uniform are more masculine or more insecure about their sexual identity."--
Description / Table of Contents:
Outing Officers: Queer Activism, Melodrama, and the Harden-Moltke Trial -- Disciplinary Abuses: From Military Secrecy to Sadism in the Army -- The Obscure Object of Desire: Uniform Fetishism, Male Prostitution, and German Soldiers -- Camping in His Own Private Militarism: Thomas Mann's Queer Art of Failure and the Fantasies of Military Service -- Perversions of Fantasy: Parody and the Left-Liberal Critique of German Militarism in Heinrich Mann's The Loyal Subject.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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