A history of homosexuality in Europe
Subtitle: Berlin, London, Paris, 1919-1939, volume I & II
By: Florence Tamagne.
Publisher: Algora
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Subjects: Homosexuality -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Notes: Translation of: Histoire de l'homosexualité en Europe.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The history of homosexuality: a new and controversial history research in homosexuality: methodological problems; title: 1: A brief apogee: the 1920s, a first homosexual liberation; title: The homosexual; title: between dandy and militant; title: A myth is born: those flamboyant days; title: Looking back: 1869-1919; title: The homosexual scene: subversive language; title: Magical cities, mythical cities: the geography of where to meet; title: Liberation on the move: the golden age of homosexual movements; title: The German model: communitarianism and militancy; title: The German model as an influence on homosexual movements; title: The French way: individualism comes up short; title: An inversion of values: the cult of homosexuality; title: Seduced in the public schools; title: Two generations of homosexual intellectuals; title: 2: Unacknowledged fears and desires: ambiguous speech and stereotyped images; title: Homosexuals become commonplace during the inter-war period; title: Awakening: working to construct a homosexual identity; title: The medical model: an identity imposed from outside; title: Being homosexual: proclaiming an identity; title: Defining oneself as a lesbian; title: an identity under construction; title: The birth of a homosexual community?; title: Breaking the silence: homosexuals and public opinion; title: The weight of prejudices; title: Homosexuality and the winds of fashion; title: Homosexuals as political chips; title: Homosexuals in the political arena; title: Misunderstanding or betrayal? The left shifts between puritanism and opportunism; title: Genealogy of a crime: homosexuality as a fascistic perversion; title: 3: A factitious tolerance losing ground under the repression of the 1930s; title: Criminals before the law; title: Reactionary England (1919-1939); title: Weimar Germany, permissiveness and repression (1919-1933); title: French homosexuals; title: out of probation (1919-1939); title: The end of a dream: the German model blows up; title: 1933-1935: destruction of the German model; title: 1935-1939: the organization of the anti-homosexual terror; title: The late 1930s: French and English homosexuals in a turmoil; title: Toward homosexual liberation.