The Hirschfeld Archives
Subtitle: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture
Series: Sexuality Studies
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 15 May 2017
Place of publication: Philadelphia, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781439914328; 9781439914342
Copyright date: 2017
Description: 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 the influential sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935), and through Hirschfeld's work examines the form and collective impact of anti-queer violence in the first half of the twentieth century. Hirschfeld's archive (his library at the Institute for Sexual Sciences in Berlin) was destroyed by the Nazis in 1933, so the archive of Bauer's title is one that she's built from over a hundred published and unpublished books, articles, films and photographs.
Notes: Knowledge Unlatched 100098 KU Select 2016 Front List Collection

English.