Uniform Fantasies : : Soldiers, Sex, and Queer Emancipation in Imperial Germany / / Jeffrey Schneider.
Starting in the nineteenth century in Germany, colourful military uniforms became a locus for various queer male fantasies, fostering an underground sexual economy of male prostitution as well as a political project to exploit the army's prestige for queer emancipation. In the first decade of t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2023] 2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | German and European Studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 15 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Outing Offcers: Queer Activism, Melodrama, and the Harden-Moltke Trial
- 2 Disciplinary Abuses: From Military Secrecy to Sadism in the Army
- 3 The Obscure Object of Desire: Uniform Fetishism, Male Prostitution, and German Soldiers
- 4 Camping in His Own Private Militarism: Thomas Mann's Queer Art of Failure and the Fantasies of Military Service
- 5 Perversions of Fantasy: Parody and the Left-Liberal Critique of German Militarism in Heinrich Mann's The Loyal Subject
- Epilogue: The War on Fantasy
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index