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Book SynopsisQueer Lives across the Wall examines the everyday lives of queer Berliners between 1945 and 1970, tracing private and public queer life from the end of the Nazi regime through the gay and lesbian liberation movements of the 1970s.
Andrea Rottmann explores how certain spaces – including homes, bars, streets, parks, and prisons – facilitated and restricted queer lives in the overwhelmingly conservative climate that characterized both German postwar states. With a theoretical toolkit informed by feminist, queer, and spatial theories, the book goes beyond previous histories that focus on state surveillance and the persecution of male homosexuality.
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Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Map Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: “Mamita invites you in” 1. Homes 2. Surveilled Sociability: Queer Bars 3. Passing Through, Trespassing, Passing in Public Spaces 4. Bubis Behind Bars: Prisons as Queer Spaces 5. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
