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Racism and the Making of Gay Rights : A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love /

In 1931, a sexologist arrived in colonial Shanghai to give a public lecture about homosexuality. In the audience was a medical student, and after the lecture concluded, he introduced himself. The sexologist, Magnus Hirschfeld, fell in love with the medical student, Li Shiu Tong. Li became Hirschfeld...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Marhoefer, Laurie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2022]
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction: Manila, Philippines, July 1931
  • 1 "Einstein of Sex": Magnus Hirschfeld at the End of the First Century of Gay Rights: North Atlantic Ocean, November 1930
  • 2 The Empire of Queer Love
  • 3 Hirschfeld and Li Shiu Tong Meet: Feminism and Queer Attraction at the China United Apartments: International Settlement, Shanghai, May 1931
  • 4 The Fight against Sexual Oppression Is a Fight against Empire: Jawaharlal Nehru's House, Allahabad, India, October 1931
  • 5 Was the Homosexual White? Analogy and the Making of the Sexual Minority
  • 6 Magnus Hirschfeld's Theory of the Races
  • 7 Tea with Langston Hughes: Hirschfeld's Anti-Blackness and Queer Black New York: Manhattan, Winter of 1930
  • 8 Making Jews White: Tel Aviv, Palestine, Winter of 1932
  • 9 Magnus Hirschfeld's Queer Eugenics: Berlin, Germany; Manila, Philippines; Pasadena, California, United States; and Bondowoso, East Java, Indonesia
  • 10 "And What about Women?"
  • 11 The Exile: Athens to Nice, 1932-1935
  • 12 Li Shiu Tong's Queer Masculinities: Hotel Baur au Lac, Zurich, Late 1930s
  • 13 Li Shiu Tong's Defiant Sexology: Vancouver, British Columbia, 1974-1993
  • Conclusion: Li Shiu Tong's Berlin and Magnus Hirschfeld's America
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index