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  • Queer Print Cultures

    Resistance, Subversion, and Community

    by Javier Samper Vendrell, Vance Byrd ...
    Series series Studies in Book and Print Culture
    Queer Print Cultures explores the intersections of queer studies, book history, and visual culture, challenging traditional narratives about printed objects and their cultural significance. This collection of essays examines how printed materials illuminate histories of gendered and sexual embodiment, revealing the complex interactions between texts, their creators, and their readers.With essays ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • The Seduction of Youth

    Print Culture and Homosexual Rights in the Weimar Republic

    by Javier Samper Vendrell ...
    Series series German and European Studies
    A simple man from the provinces, Friedrich Radszuweit merged popular culture, consumerism, and politics as the leader of the League for Human Rights, Germany’s first mass homosexual organization. The Seduction of Youth is the first study to focus on the League and its leader, using his position at the centre of the Weimar-era gay rights movement to tease out the diverging political strategies and ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

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  • Gay Berlin

    Birthplace of a Modern Identity

    by Robert Beachy ...
    An unprecedented examination of the ways in which the uninhibited urban sexuality, sexual experimentation, and medical advances of pre-Weimar Berlin created and molded our modern understanding of sexual orientation and gay identity.Known already in the 1850s for the friendly company of its “warm brothers” (German slang for men who love other men), Berlin, before the turn of the twentieth century, ... Read more

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  • Sex and the Weimar Republic

    German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis

    by Laurie Marhoefer ...
    Series series German and European Studies
    Liberated, licentious, or merely liberal, the sexual freedoms of Germany’s Weimar Republic have become legendary. The home of the world’s first gay rights movement, the republic embodied a progressive, secular vision of sexual liberation. Immortalized – however misleadingly – in Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories and the musical Cabaret, Weimar’s freedoms have become a touchstone for the ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

  • Other Germans

    Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich

    by Tina Marie Campt ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    It's hard to imagine an issue or image more riveting than Black Germans during the Third Reich. Yet accounts of their lives are virtually nonexistent, despite the fact that they lived through a regime dedicated to racial purity.Tina Campt's Other Germans tells the story of this largely forgotten group of individuals, with important distinctions from other accounts. Most strikingly, Campt centers ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Berlin Coquette

    Prostitution and the New German Woman, 1890–1933

    by Jill Suzanne Smith ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    During the late nineteenth century the city of Berlin developed such a reputation for lawlessness and sexual licentiousness that it came to be known as the "Whore of Babylon." Out of this reputation for debauchery grew an unusually rich discourse around prostitution. In Berlin Coquette, Jill Suzanne Smith shows how this discourse transcended the usual clichés about prostitutes and actually ... Read more

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  • Habermas

    A Biography

    by Stefan Müller-Doohm ...
    ‘Jürgen Habermas’, wrote the American philosopher Ronald Dworkin on the occasion of the great European thinker’s eightieth birthday, ‘is not only the world’s most famous living philosopher. Even his fame is famous.’ Now, after many years of intensive research and in-depth conversations with contemporaries, colleagues and Habermas himself, Stefan Müller-Doohm presents the first comprehensive ... Read more

    $32.00 USD

  • Inside Concentration Camps

    Social Life at the Extremes

    by Maja Suderland ...
    Terror was central to the Nazi regime, and the Nazi concentration camps were places of horror where prisoners were dehumanized and robbed of their dignity and where millions were murdered. How did prisoners cope with the brutal and degrading conditions of life within the camps?In this highly original book Maja Suderland takes the reader inside the concentration camps and examines the everyday ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Habermas

    An Intellectual Biography

    by Matthew G. Specter ...
    This book follows postwar Germany's leading philosopher and social thinker, Jürgen Habermas, through four decades of political and constitutional struggle over the shape of liberal democracy in Germany. Habermas's most influential theories - of the public sphere, communicative action, and modernity - were decisively shaped by major West German political events: the failure to de-Nazify the ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Queer Lives across the Wall

    Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945–1970

    by Andrea Rottmann ...
    Series Book 50 - German and European Studies
    Queer Lives across the Wall examines the everyday lives of queer Berliners between 1945 and 1970, tracing private and public queer life from the end of the Nazi regime through the gay and lesbian liberation movements of the 1970s.Andrea Rottmann explores how certain spaces – including homes, bars, streets, parks, and prisons – facilitated and restricted queer lives in the overwhelmingly ... Read more

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  • Violent Sensations

    Sex, Crime, and Utopia in Vienna and Berlin, 1860-1914

    by Scott Spector ...
    Around the turn of the twentieth century, Vienna and Berlin were centers of scientific knowledge, accompanied by a sense of triumphalism and confidence in progress. Yet they were also sites of fascination with urban decay, often focused on sexual and criminal deviants and the tales of violence surrounding them. Sensational media reports fed the prurient public’s hunger for stories from the ... Read more

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  • Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany

    Edited by Richard F. Wetzell ...
    Series Book 16 - Studies in German History
    The history of criminal justice in modern Germany has become a vibrant field of research, as demonstrated in this volume. Following an introductory survey, the twelve chapters examine major topics in the history of crime and criminal justice from Imperial Germany, through the Weimar and Nazi eras, to the early postwar years. These topics include case studies of criminal trials, the development of ... Read more

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