Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Male Homosexuality in West Germany : Between Persecution and Freedom, 1945-69 [electronic resource]
- Auflage
- 1st ed. 2012
- Ort / Verlag
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2012
- Link zum Volltext
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Introduction : the neglected postwar period -- Policing and prejudice after 1945 -- The homophile movement -- Struggles over the gay scenes' boundaries -- Reforming paragraph -- Conclusion : between persecution and freedom.
- Whisnant argues that the period after Nazism was more important for the history of homosexuality in Germany than is generally recognized. Gay scenes resurfaced; a more masculine view of homosexuality also became prominent. Above all, a public debate about homosexuality emerged, constituting a critical debate within the Sexual Revolution.
- English
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 1-349-34681-0, 1-137-02834-3DOI: 10.1057/9781137028341Titel-ID: 9925040413006463
- Format
- 1 online resource (275 p.)
- Schlagworte
- Sociology, Europe, Central—History, Europe—History, Social history, History, Modern, Social groups, Family, Gender Studies, History of Germany and Central Europe, European History, Social History, Modern History, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging