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This volume is the first full-length study on pioneering sexologist and sexual rights activist, Magnus Hirschfeld, that examines his impact on the politics and culture of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Germany and the value of his rationalist humanist approach for contemporary debates on sexual rights.
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"Physician, sexologist, homosexual activist, German, Jew, and what he called, a world citizen, Magnus Hirschfeld was a fascinating and complex character, one who has earned an exalted place among crusaders for tolerance and human freedom. A champion of the decriminalization of homosexuality, promoter of sexual freedom, and supporter of the women s movement, Hirschfeld rejected the dual sex system as well as prevailing popular and scientific notions of homosexuality as a pathological expression of deviance. Examining Hirschfeld the scientist, political activist, and cultural critic, Mancini is to be congratulated for her thorough, engaged, and engaging study of one of twentieth-century Europe s great humanists." - John M. Efron, Koret Professor of Jewish History, University of California-Berkeley
"Readable and useful, this new intellectual biography of the German sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld adds greatly to our understanding of the cultural politics of sex in Germany from the turn of the century to the collapse of the Weimar Republic." - Sander L. Gilman, Director, Program in Psychoanalysis, Health Sciences Humanities; Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences; and Professor of Psychiatry, Emory University
About the author
Elena Mancini received her Ph.D. in German Studies from Rutgers University. She has taught at Hunter College, Montclair University, and Rutgers, and is the Culture Editor for Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Magnus Hirschfeld and the Quest for Sexual Freedom
Book Subtitle: A History of the First International Sexual Freedom Movement
Authors: Elena Mancini
Series Title: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230114395
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Elena Mancini 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-10426-6Published: 26 November 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-28871-7Published: 10 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-11439-5Published: 08 November 2010
Series ISSN: 2945-7491
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7505
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 204
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Cultural History, Gender Studies, Sociology, general, World History, Global and Transnational History, Regional and Cultural Studies, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging