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Sex after Fascism : Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany / Dagmar Herzog.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2007]Copyright date: ©2005Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource : 20 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691117027
  • 9781400843329
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.7/0943/0904 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ18.G3 H47 2005eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Sex and the Third Reich -- CHAPTER TWO. The Fragility of Heterosexuality -- CHAPTER THREE. Desperately Seeking Normality -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Morality of Pleasure -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Romance of Socialism -- CHAPTER SIX. Antifascist Bodies -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: What is the relationship between sexual and other kinds of politics? Few societies have posed this puzzle as urgently, or as disturbingly, as Nazi Germany. What exactly were Nazism's sexual politics? Were they repressive for everyone, or were some individuals and groups given sexual license while others were persecuted, tormented, and killed? How do we make sense of the evolution of postwar interpretations of Nazism's sexual politics? What do we make of the fact that scholars from the 1960s to the present have routinely asserted that the Third Reich was "sex-hostile"? In response to these and other questions, Sex after Fascism fundamentally reconceives central topics in twentieth-century German history. Among other things, it changes the way we understand the immense popular appeal of the Nazi regime and the nature of antisemitism, the role of Christianity in the consolidation of postfascist conservatism in the West, the countercultural rebellions of the 1960s-1970s, as well as the negotiations between government and citizenry under East German communism. Beginning with a new interpretation of the Third Reich's sexual politics and ending with the revisions of Germany's past facilitated by communism's collapse, Sex after Fascism examines the intimately intertwined histories of capitalism and communism, pleasure and state policies, religious renewal and secularizing trends. A history of sexual attitudes and practices in twentieth-century Germany, investigating such issues as contraception, pornography, and theories of sexual orientation, Sex after Fascism also demonstrates how Germans made sexuality a key site for managing the memory and legacies of Nazism and the Holocaust.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Sex and the Third Reich -- CHAPTER TWO. The Fragility of Heterosexuality -- CHAPTER THREE. Desperately Seeking Normality -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Morality of Pleasure -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Romance of Socialism -- CHAPTER SIX. Antifascist Bodies -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

What is the relationship between sexual and other kinds of politics? Few societies have posed this puzzle as urgently, or as disturbingly, as Nazi Germany. What exactly were Nazism's sexual politics? Were they repressive for everyone, or were some individuals and groups given sexual license while others were persecuted, tormented, and killed? How do we make sense of the evolution of postwar interpretations of Nazism's sexual politics? What do we make of the fact that scholars from the 1960s to the present have routinely asserted that the Third Reich was "sex-hostile"? In response to these and other questions, Sex after Fascism fundamentally reconceives central topics in twentieth-century German history. Among other things, it changes the way we understand the immense popular appeal of the Nazi regime and the nature of antisemitism, the role of Christianity in the consolidation of postfascist conservatism in the West, the countercultural rebellions of the 1960s-1970s, as well as the negotiations between government and citizenry under East German communism. Beginning with a new interpretation of the Third Reich's sexual politics and ending with the revisions of Germany's past facilitated by communism's collapse, Sex after Fascism examines the intimately intertwined histories of capitalism and communism, pleasure and state policies, religious renewal and secularizing trends. A history of sexual attitudes and practices in twentieth-century Germany, investigating such issues as contraception, pornography, and theories of sexual orientation, Sex after Fascism also demonstrates how Germans made sexuality a key site for managing the memory and legacies of Nazism and the Holocaust.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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