Heike Bauer
Temple University Press
Published 2017
ISBN 9781439914328
This
work examines how death, suicide and violence shaped modern queer
culture, arguing that negative experiences, as much as affirmative
subculture formation, influenced the emergence of a collective sense of
same-sex identity. Bauer looks for this history of violence in the work
and reception of the influential sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld
(1868-1935), and through Hirschfeld's work examines the form and
collective impact of anti-queer violence in the first half of the
twentieth century. Hirschfeld's archive (his library at the Institute
for Sexual Sciences in Berlin) was destroyed by the Nazis in 1933, so
the archive of Bauer's title is one that she's built from over a hundred
published and unpublished books, articles, films and photographs.
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