Sex and the Weimar Republic: German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis

by Laurie Marhoefer

Book Overview

Liberated, licentious, or merely liberal, the sexual freedoms of Germany's Weimar Republic have become legendary. The home of the world's first gay rights movement, the republic embodied a progressive, secular vision of sexual liberation. Immortalized - however misleadingly - in Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories and the musical Cabaret, Weimar's freedoms have become a touchstone for the politics of sexual emancipation.

Yet, as Laurie...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442626577
• ISBN13: 9781442626577
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"