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Desiring Emancipation: New Women and Homosexuality in Germany, 1890-1933

Desiring Emancipation: New Women and Homosexuality in Germany, 1890-1933

Lybeck, Marti M.

Paperback

Series: Suny Queer Politics and Cultures

German HistoryGLBTQIA StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1438452225
ISBN13: 9781438452227
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jul 2 2015
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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

Desiring Emancipation traces middle-class German women's claims to gender emancipation and sexual subjectivity in the pre-Nazi era. The emergence of homosexual identities and concepts in this same time frame provided the context for expression of individual struggles with self, femininity, and sex. The book asks how women used new concepts and opportunities to construct selves in relationship to family, society, state, and culture. Taking a queer approach, Desiring Emancipation's goal is not to find homosexuals in history, but to analyze how women reworked categories of gender and sex. Marti M. Lybeck interrogates their desires, demonstrating that emancipation was fraught with conflict, anachronism, and disappointment.

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