Different from the Others : : German and Dutch Discourses of Queer Femininity and Female Desire, 1918–1940 / / Cyd Sturgess.

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• VerfasserIn: Sturgess, Cyd,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)

For much of Europe, the interwar period was one of cultural expansion and diversion and increased visibility for lesbians. While historical research on Germany during the period immediately after the First World War has been extensively studied by historians through the lens of gender and sexuality—with an implicit emphasis on the “masculine” dimension of queer female sexuality—the Dutch context has been virtually ignored. Through careful and sensitive studies of medico‐social discourses, media representations, and literary depictions of queer femininity, Different from the Others recovers the submerged history of queer feminine women in both Germany and the Netherlands. Cyd Sturgess provides a theoretical analysis that makes key empirical contributions to the history of Dutch gays and lesbians while reframing our collective understanding of queer femininity more broadly.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. Sociomedical Discourses -- Chapter 1. Sex and the Cities: Mapping Queer Feminine Desires -- Chapter 2. Sexual Science: The Queer Feminine Mystique -- Part II. Community Discourses -- Introduction -- Chapter 3. Fashioning Femininities in The Girlfriend (1924‒33) and Women’s Love (1926‒32) -- Chapter 4. Marys and Mollys: Identifying Queer Feminine Desires on the Dutch Press Landscape -- Part III. Literary Discourses -- Introduction -- Chapter 5. A Mother’s Love: Eva Raedt-de Canter’s Boarding School (1930) and Christa Winsloe’s The Girl Manuela (1933) -- Chapter 6. When Object Becomes Subject: Feminine Protagonists in Anna Elisabet Weirauch’s The Scorpion Trilogy (1919–31) and Josine Reuling’s Back to the Island (1937) -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index