Desiring emancipation: new women and homosexuality in Germany, 1890-1933
In: SUNY series in queer politics and cultures
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Emancipation -- Homosexuality -- Subjectivity -- 1. "Are These Women?" University Students' Quest for a New Gender -- How Can These Be Women? -- The Third Sex -- The Discovery of Collegiality: Exploring Heterosociality -- Emancipated Homosociality -- Frieda Duensing's Struggle for Moral Freedom -- Disappointment and Morality -- 2. Experiments in Female Masculinity: Sophia Goudstikker's Masculine Mimicry in Turn-of-the-Century Munich -- Erotic Munich -- Female Masculinity, c. 1897 -- Female Masculinity in the Heterosexual Plot -- Masculine Feminism? -- The Homoerotics of Female Masculinity -- The Absent Presence of Sex -- 3. Asserting Sexual Subjectivity in Berlin: The Proliferation of a Public Discourse of Female Homosexuality, 1900-1912 -- What the People Should Know": The New Common Sense of Homosexuality -- Repulsive and Pathological"- Rejecting Male Sexual Subjectivity as a Model -- Sickening Orgies": Debating the Dangers of Female Homosexuality -- Gender Equity: Criminalizing Female Homosexuality -- 4. Denying Desire: Professional Women Facing Accusations of Homosexuality -- The Three Cases -- The Philipps Case -- The Atteln Case -- The Erkens Case -- Career Women's Precarious Worlds I: Emancipation, Sex, and Power -- Career Women's Precarious Worlds II: Ideal Friendships -- Deploying Accusations of Homosexuality -- Medical Diagnosis -- 5. Emancipation and Desire in Weimar Berlin's Female Homosexual Public Sphere -- Building a Public Sphere -- Overlapping Spaces and Spheres: Female Homosexualities in Interwar Germany -- To Be Taken Seriously": Science and Politics in the Public Sphere -- Love, Sex, and Masculinity in the Homosexual Private Sphere -- Epilogue -- Conclusion -- Emancipation -- Homosexuality -- Subjectivity -- Notes -- Bibliography.