Uniform fantasies : soldiers, sex, and queer emancipation in imperial Germany /

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"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 decad...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schneider, Jeffrey (Lecturer in German studies) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2023]
Series:German and European studies ; 51.
Subjects:
Germany. > Heer > Uniforms > Social aspects.
Germany. > Heer
Gay military personnel > Sexual behavior > Germany.
Uniforms > Erotic aspects > Germany.
Closeted gays > Germany.
Coming out (Sexual orientation) > Germany.
Masculinity > Germany.
Gender identity > Germany.
HISTORY / Europe / Germany
Closeted gays
Coming out (Sexual orientation)
Gender identity
Masculinity
Military policy
Uniforms > Social aspects
Germany > Military policy.
Germany
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Outing Officers: Queer Activism, Melodrama, and the Harden-Moltke Trial
  • Disciplinary Abuses: From Military Secrecy to Sadism in the Army
  • The Obscure Object of Desire: Uniform Fetishism, Male Prostitution, and German Soldiers
  • Camping in His Own Private Militarism: Thomas Mann's Queer Art of Failure and the Fantasies of Military Service
  • Perversions of Fantasy: Parody and the Left-Liberal Critique of German Militarism in Heinrich Mann's The Loyal Subject.

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