The Hirschfeld Archives : Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture /

This work examines how death, suicide and violence shaped modern queer culture, arguing that negative experiences, as much as affirmative subculture formation, influenced the emergence of a collective sense of same-sex identity. Bauer looks for this history of violence in the work and reception of t...

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Main Author: Bauer, Heike (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Sexual rights in a world of wrongs: reframing the emergence of homosexual rights activism in colonial contexts
  • 2. Death, suicide, and modern homosexual culture
  • 3. Normal cruelty: child beatings and sexual violence
  • 4. From fragile solidarities to burnt sexual subjects: at the Institute of Sexual Science
  • 5 Lives that are spoken for: queer in exile
  • Coda.