Uniform Fantasies: Soldiers, Sex, and Queer Emancipation in Imperial Germany

by Jeffrey Schneider

Book Overview

Starting in the nineteenth century in Germany, colourful military uniforms became a locus for various queer male fantasies, fostering an underground sexual economy of male prostitution as well as a political project to exploit the army's prestige for queer emancipation. In the first decade of the twentieth century, however, a series of scandals derailed this emancipatory project. Simultaneously, public debates began to invoke homosexuality, sadism,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 148754961X
• ISBN13: 9781487549619
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher