Uniform Fantasies Soldiers, Sex, and Queer Emancipation in Imperial Germany
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
07.07.2023
Abbildungen
15 b&w illustrations 15 Illustrations, unspecified
Verlag
University of Toronto PressSeitenzahl
344
Maße (L/B/H)
22.5/15/2.1 cm
Gewicht
501 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-4875-4961-9
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, transvestism, and other sexological concepts to criticize military policies and practices.
In pursuing the threads with which queer authors and activists stitched their fantasies about uniforms, Jeffrey Schneider offers fresh perspectives on key debates over military secrecy, disciplinary abuses in the army, and German militarism. Drawing on a vast trove of materials ranging from sexological case studies, trial transcripts, and parliamentary debates to queer activist tracts, autobiographies, and literary texts, Uniform Fantasies uncovers a particularly modern set of concerns about such topics as outing closeted homosexuals, the presence of gay men in the military, and whether men in uniform are more masculine or more insecure about their sexual identity.
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