Sex and the Weimar Republic
Subtitle: German homosexual emancipation and the rise of the Nazis
By: Laurie Marhoefer
Series: German and European studies -- 23; German and European studies -- 23.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781442626577; 9781442649156
Subjects: Politics and government; Gay rights; Law and legislation; Prostitution; Gays; Homosexuality; Social conditions; Sexual freedom; Legal status, laws; History
Notes: Various printings.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-325) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the opening night of the Institute for Sexual Science, July, 1919; title: Homosexual emancipation, censorship, and the revolution of 1918-1919; title: Lesbianism, reading, and law; title: Female prostitution, modern heterosexuality, and the 1927 venereal disease law; title: Male prostitution, homosexual emancipation, and the 1929 vote to repeal the sodomy law; title: "The third sex greets the Third Reich!" the Röhm scandal, 1931 1932; title: The politics of "immoral" sexuality in the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazis; title: Conclusion : the Weimar settlement on sexual politics.