- 300 pages
- English
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About this book
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. Each chapter is a microhistorical recreation of the actions, writings, contexts, and conflicts of specific groups of women. The topics include the experience of first-generation university students, public debates about female homosexuality, and the stories of three civil servants whose careers were ruined by workplace accusations of homosexuality. The book concludes with a debate between the women who joined the 1920s homosexual movement on the meanings of their new identities.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. āAre These Women?ā University Studentsā Quest for a New Gender
- 2. Experiments in Female Masculinity: Sophia Goudstikkerās Masculine Mimicry in Turn-of-the-Century Munich
- 3. Asserting Sexual Subjectivity in Berlin: The Proliferation of a Public Discourse of Female Homosexuality, 1900ā1912
- 4. Denying Desire: Professional Women Facing Accusations of Homosexuality
- 5. Emancipation and Desire in Weimar Berlinās Female Homosexual Public Sphere
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover