ISBN:
9781800730939
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 370 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
DDC:
306.766309430904
Keywords:
Geschichte 1918-1940
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c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)
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ca. 1919 bis ca. 1939 (Zwischenkriegszeit)
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Frau
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Lesbe
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Homosexualität
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20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
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Gay & Lesbian studies
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HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
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HISTORY / Social History
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LGBTQ+ / Untersuchungen zu Homosexualität
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
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Social & cultural history
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Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
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Deutschland
;
Niederlande
Abstract:
For much of Europe, the interwar period was one of cultural expansion and diversion and increased visibility for lesbians. While historical research on Germany during the period immediately after the First World War has been extensively studied by historians through the lens of gender and sexuality-with an implicit emphasis on the "masculine" dimension of queer female sexuality-the Dutch context has been virtually ignored. Through careful and sensitive studies of medico-social discourses, media representations, and literary depictions of queer femininity, Different from the Others recovers the submerged history of queer feminine women in both Germany and the Netherlands. Cyd Sturgess provides a theoretical analysis that makes key empirical contributions to the history of Dutch gays and lesbians while reframing our collective understanding of queer femininity more broadly
Description / Table of Contents:
AcknowledgementsAbbreviations and TranslationsIntroduction"Good" and "Bad" FemininitiesLocating the "Fem(me)" in Histories of SexualityLabels and NamesQueer Historiographical Methods Setting the Parameters for Historical ResearchPart I: Socio-Medical DiscoursesChapter 1. Sex and the Cities - Locating Queer Feminine Desires'A Child of War'A Conservative ModernityLiving Apart TogetherThe (Not So) Frivolous Flapper'Bubis' and 'Madis'Little Baskets and Cautionary OwlsQueer Activism in the CityPolicing Same-Sex Desires ConclusionsChapter 2. Sexual Science - The Queer Feminine MystiqueThe Emergence of a Scientia SexualisIdeal Women, Ideal MarriagesQueer Female Desire At the Margins: Early Theories of Same-Sex DesiresSomatic Signifiers: Questions of Queer LegitimacIntermediary Forms: Spectrums and Hierarchies of Queer DesireFemininity as a (Queer) Woman's RightSeductive Don Juans and Curable QueersConclusionsPart II: Community DiscoursesIntroductionChapter 3. Fashioning Femininities in the Weimar Periodicals The Girlfriend and Love of WomenThe Girlfriend: 'Journal for Ideal Friendship'Women's Love: 'Friendship, Love and Sexual Emancipation'Discursive Divisions within Berlin's Queer SubcultureDefining the Parameters of the FeminineLiterary Discourses and Feminine DesireFashioning FemininitiesTrans FemininitiesAnti-Feminine DiscoursesConclusionsChapter 4. Marys and Mollys: Finding the Queer Feminine on the Dutch Press LandscapeThe Cult of DomesticityBeatrice (1939-1967)The Young Woman (1924-1938)We (1932)The Right to Live (1940-1946)ConclusionsPart III: Fictional DiscoursesIntroductionChapter 5. A Mother's Love: Eva Raedt-de Canter's Internaat (1930) and Christa Winsloe's Das Madchen Manuela (1933)Eva Raedt-de CanterChrista WinsloeBoarding School (1930)The Girl Manuela (1933)'Alone in the World': Dynamic Desires in Boarding School'I want to be a boy': Queering Sexological Tropes in The Girl ManuelaA Mother's Love"Confessions" and "Comings-Out": Queer Desires as Queer Identities?ConclusionsChapter 6. When Object Becomes Subject: Feminine Protagonists in Anne E. Weirauch's The Scorpion (1919-1931) and Josine Reuling's Back to the Island (1937)Anna E. WeirauchJosine Reuling The Scorpion (1919-1931)Back to the Island (1937)Challenging Sexological FrameworksFemininity in the ForegroundHierarchies of Gender and DesireMother-Love and "Nonlesbian" SubjectsConclusionsConclusionBibliography
Note:
Interessenniveau: 06, Professional and scholarly: For an expert adult audience, including academic research. (06)
