Desiring Emancipation: New Women and Homosexuality in Germany, 1890-1933

by Marti M. Lybeck

Book Overview

Desiring Emancipation traces middle-class German women's claims to gender emancipation and sexual subjectivity in the pre-Nazi era. The emergence of homosexual identities and concepts in this same time frame provided the context for expression of individual struggles with self, femininity, and sex. The book asks how women used new concepts and opportunities to construct selves in relationship to family, society, state, and culture. Taking a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438452217
• ISBN13: 9781438452210
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.6"