After <i>The History of Sexuality</i>: German Genealogies with and Beyond Foucault

book: After <i>The History of Sexuality</i>

Published by Berghahn Books 2012

After The History of Sexuality

German Genealogies with and Beyond Foucault

Edited by: Scott Spector , Helmut Puff and Dagmar Herzog

Volume 5 in the series Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857453747

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About this book

Michel Foucault’s seminal The History of Sexuality (1976–1984) has since its publication provided a context for the emergence of critical historical studies of sexuality. This collection reassesses the state of the historiography on sexuality—a field in which the German case has been traditionally central. In many diverse ways, the Foucauldian intervention has governed the formation of questions in the field as well as the assumptions about how some of these questions should be answered. It can be argued, however, that some of these revolutionary insights have ossified into dogmas or truisms within the field. Yet, as these contributions meticulously reveal, those very truisms, when revisited with a fresh eye, can lead to new, unexpected insights into the history of sexuality, necessitating a return to and reinterpretation of Foucault’s richly complex work. This volume will be necessary reading for students of historical sexuality as well as for those readers in German history and German studies generally who have an interest in the history of sexuality.

Author / Editor information

Scott Spector is Professor in the Department of History and Professor and Chair of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Helmut Puff is Professor in the Departments of History and Germanic Languages at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Dagmar Herzog is Distinguished Professor of History and Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Scott Spector is Professor in the Department of History and Professor and Chair of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Reviews

“This book is required reading for any student entering the terrain of Foucauldian sexuality studies and for any scholar already engaged with the intricacies of Michel Foucault’s work… Overall, this volume makes an important contribution to the academic debates and provides a timely reminder of context-specific, institutional definitions of sexuality and an individual’s or community’s power to support or challenge them.” · German Studies Review

“The ability to go back to and beyond Foucault seems to be genuinely liberating [as shown] in this excellent collection of essays—ranging in period from the medieval to the twentieth century…This new focus on resistance as well as on discipline, and on milieux as well as on discourses, is highly refreshing. The authors are to be commended for their bold and self-critical venture. They open up the possibility of a less reverential, but more complex and insightful assessment of Foucault’s work. It is pleasing to see German historiography at the head of this exciting new trend.” · German History

“This is an important collection of essays, many of them very original and outstanding, that will further the field of history of sexuality in general and will contribute to the German historiography in particular.” · Lutz Sauerteig, University of Durham

"This volume provides a thought provoking and thorough engagement with various aspects of Foucault’s writing, at once paying homage to core themes in the history of German sexuality and charting a course for future research…The organization, structure, and coherence of each section is very strong…Most intriguing is its blend of approaches and blurring of time, distance (the Atlantic divide in scholarship, that is), and disciplinarity." · Jennifer Evans, Carleton University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
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INTRODUCTION After Th e History of Sexuality? Periodicities, Subjectivities, Ethics Scott Spector Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
SECTION I When Was Sexuality? Rethinking Periodization
CHAPTER 1 After the History of (Male) Homosexuality When Helmut Puff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
CHAPTER 2 Sexual Identity and Other Aspects of “Modern” Sexuality: New Chronologies, Same Old Problem? Merry Wiesner-Hanks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
CHAPTER 3 Interior States and Sexuality in Early Modern Germany Ulinka Rublack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
CHAPTER 4 Saying It with Flowers: Post-Foucauldian Literary History and the Poetics of Taboo in a Premodern German Love Song (Walther von der Vogelweide’s “Lindenlied”) Andreas Krass Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
CHAPTER 5 Early Nineteenth-Century Sexual Radicalism: Heinrich Hössli and the Liberals of His Day Robert Deam Tobin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
SECTION II Whose Sexuality? Subjectivity, Surveillance, Emancipation
CHAPTER 6 Anna Rüling, Michel Foucault, and the “Tactical Polyvalence” of the Female Homosexual Kirsten Leng Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
CHAPTER 7 To Police and Protect The Surveillance of Homosexuality in Imperial Berlin Robert Beachy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
CHAPTER 8 Soliciting Fantasies: Knowing and Not Knowing about Male Prostitution by Soldiers in Imperial Germany Jeffrey Schneider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
CHAPTER 9 Between Normalization and Resistance: Prostitutes’ Professional Identities and Political Organization in Weimar Germany Julia Roos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
CHAPTER 10 Writing Love, Feeling Shame: Rethinking Respectability in the Weimar Homosexual Women’s Movement Marti M. Lybeck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
CHAPTER 11 Transsexual: Herculine Barbin Meets “Liebe Marta” Philipp Sarasin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
SECTION III Politics of Sexual Ethics
CHAPTER 12 Beyond Freedom A Return to Subjectivity in the History of Sexuality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
CHAPTER 13 Homosexuality in the Sexual Ethics of the 1930s: A Values Debate in the Culture Wars between Conservatism, Liberalism, and Moral-National Renewal Andreas Pretzel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
CHAPTER 14 Socialist Eugenics and Homosexuality in the GDR The Case of Günter Dörner Florian G. Mildenberger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
CHAPTER 15 Sex, Sentiment, and Socialism: Relationship Counseling in the GDR in the Wake of the 1965 Family Law Code Erik Huneke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
CHAPTER 16 Longing, Lust, Violence, Liberation: Discourses on Sexuality on the Radical Left in West Germany, 1969–1972 Massimo Perinelli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	248
POSTSCRIPT Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again Dagmar Herzog Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	282
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	298
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	302

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 318
Keywords: History (General); Gender Studies and Sexuality; Cultural Studies (General); Sociology

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Published: July 1, 2012
ISBN: 9780857453747