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

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

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—...

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Sturgess, Cyd,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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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

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