Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany
by Dagmar Herzog
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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 1960's show more to the present have routinely asserted that the Third Reich was "sex-hostile"? In response to these and other questions, Sex after Fascism fundamentally reconceives central topics in twentieth-century German history. Among other things, it changes the way we understand the immense popular appeal of the Nazi regime and the nature of antisemitism, the role of Christianity in the consolidation of post fascist conservatism in the West, the countercultural rebellions of the 1960's-1970's, as well as the negotiations between government and citizenry under East German communism. Beginning with a new interpretation of the Third Reich's sexual politics and ending with the revisions of Germany's past facilitated by communism's collapse, Sex after Fascism examines the intimately intertwined histories of capitalism and communism, pleasure and state policies, religious renewal and secularizing trends. A history of sexual attitudes and practices in twentieth-century Germany, investigating such issues as contraception, pornography, and theories of sexual orientation, Sex after Fascism also demonstrates how Germans made sexuality a key site for managing the memory and legacies of Nazism and the Holocaust. show lessTags
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Dagmar Herzog is Distinguished Professor of History and Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her many books include Cold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes and Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth-Century History.
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- Canonical title
- Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany
- Blurbers
- Herf, Jeffrey; Rabinbach, Anson; Moeller, Robert; Halperin, David; Jarausch, Konrad H.
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- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies
- DDC/MDS
- 306.7 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce Sexual relations
- LCC
- HQ18 .G3 .H47 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Sexual life
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- English
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