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Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany

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Description for Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany Paperback. Beginning with an interpretation of the Third Reich's sexual politics and ending with the revisions of Germany's past facilitated by communism's collapse, this book examines the intertwined histories of capitalism and communism, pleasure and state policies, religious renewal and secularizing trends. Num Pages: 368 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 548.
What is the relationship between sexual and other kinds of politics? Few societies have posed this puzzle as urgently, or as disturbingly, as Nazi Germany. What exactly were Nazism's sexual politics? Were they repressive for everyone, or were some individuals and groups given sexual license while others were persecuted, tormented, and killed? How do we make sense of the evolution of postwar interpretations of Nazism's sexual politics? What do we make of the fact that scholars from the 1960s to the present have routinely asserted that the Third Reich was "sex-hostile"? In response to these and other questions, Sex after ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
547g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691130392
SKU
V9780691130392
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About Dagmar Herzog
Dagmar Herzog is Professor of History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of "Intimacy and Exclusion: Religious Politics in Pre-Revolutionary Baden" (Princeton).

Reviews for Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany
Honorable Mention for the 2005 Bonnie and Vern L. Bullough Award "Herzog's book succeeds elegantly as both a scholarly history of sexual morality in Germany and an examination of the way this history is so often distorted in the present day."
Publishers Weekly "Forcefully argued and elegantly written... Herzog's passionate insistence on the centrality of sexuality as an explanatory category and ... Read more

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