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Book Synopsis
Brings together an exciting new archive of queer and trans voices from the history of sexual sciences in the German-speaking world. The book shows that individual voices of trans and queer writers had a significant impact on the production of knowledge about gender and sexuality and introduces lesser known texts to a new readership.

Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Queer Livability: German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing
  • Chapter 1
  • Hospitable Reading: Autobiography, Readership and Ethics in Sexual-Scientific Life Writing
  • Chapter 2
  • Gender, Agency and Prosthetic Metaphor in Sexual-Scientific Life Writing
  • Chapter 3
  • Frames of Livability: Sexual-scientific Encounter, Photography and the Department Store
  • Chapter 4
  • Trans-investiture: Writing Gender Transition in the 1890s and 1920s
  • Chapter 5
  • Queer Livability and Sexual Subjectivity in the Wolf Man Archive
  • Conclusion

    Queer Livability

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        Publisher: LUP - University of Michigan Press
        Publication Date: Publication Date: 5/23/2023 12:00:00 AM
        ISBN13: 9780472039319, 978-0472039319
        ISBN10: 0472039318
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        LGBTQIA+ Studies / topics Sociology

        Description

        Book Synopsis
        Brings together an exciting new archive of queer and trans voices from the history of sexual sciences in the German-speaking world. The book shows that individual voices of trans and queer writers had a significant impact on the production of knowledge about gender and sexuality and introduces lesser known texts to a new readership.

        Table of Contents
        • Introduction
        • Queer Livability: German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing
        • Chapter 1
        • Hospitable Reading: Autobiography, Readership and Ethics in Sexual-Scientific Life Writing
        • Chapter 2
        • Gender, Agency and Prosthetic Metaphor in Sexual-Scientific Life Writing
        • Chapter 3
        • Frames of Livability: Sexual-scientific Encounter, Photography and the Department Store
        • Chapter 4
        • Trans-investiture: Writing Gender Transition in the 1890s and 1920s
        • Chapter 5
        • Queer Livability and Sexual Subjectivity in the Wolf Man Archive
        • Conclusion

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