Michel Foucaults seminalThe History of Sexuality(19761984) has since its publication provided a context for the emergence of critical historical studies of sexuality. This collection reassesses the state of the historiography on sexualitya field in which the German case has been traditionally central. In many diverse ways, the Foucauldian intervention has governed the formation of questions in the field as well as the assumptions about how some of these questions should be answered. It can be argued, however, that some of these revolutionary insights have ossified into dogmas or truisms within the field. Yet, as these contributions meticulously reveal, those very truisms, when revisited with a fresh eye, can lead to new, unexpected insights into the history of sexuality, necessitating a return to and reinterpretation of Foucaults richly complex work. This volume will be necessary reading for students of historical sexuality as well as for those readers in German history and German studies generally who have an interest in the history of sexuality.

Dagmar Herzogis Distinguished Professor of History and Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

List of Figures

Introduction: After theHistory of Sexuality? Periodicities, Subjectivities, EthicsScott Spector

PART I:  WHEN WAS SEXUALITY? RETHINKING PERIODIZATION

Chapter 1. After the History of (Male) HomosexualityHelmut Puff

Chapter 2.Sexual Identity and Other Aspects of Modern Sexuality: New Chronologies, Same Old Problem?Merry Wiesner-Hanks

Chapter 3. Interior States and Sexuality in Early Modern GermanyUlinka Rublack

Chapter 4. Saying It With Flowers: Post-Foucauldian Literary History and the Poetics of Taboo in a Premodern German Love Song (Walther von der VogelweidesUnder der linden)Andreas Krass

Chapter 5.Early Nineteenth-Century Sexual Radicalism: Heinrich Hössli and the Liberals of His DayRobert Deam Tobin

PART II:  WHOSE SEXUALITY? SUBJECTIVITY, SURVEILLANCE, EMANCIPATION

Chapter 6. Anna Rüling, Michel Foucault, and the Tactical Polyvalence of the Female HomosexualKirsten Leng

Chapter 7.To Policeand Protect: The Surveillance of Homosexuality in Imperial BerlinRobert Beachy

Chapter 8. Soliciting Fantasies: Knowing and Not-Knowing about Male Prostitution by Soldiers in Imperial GermanyJeffrey Schneider

Chapter 9.Between Normalization and Resistance: Prostitutes Professional Identities and Political Organization in Weimar GermanyJulia Roos

Chapter 10. Writing Love, Feeling Shame: Rethinking Respectability in the Weimar Homosexual Womens MovementMarti Lybeck

Chapter 11. Transsexual: Herculine Barbin Meets Liebe MartaPhilipp Sarasin

PART III: THE POLITICS OF SEXUAL ETHICS

Chapter 12.Beyond Freedom: A Return to Subjectivity in the History of SexualityTracie Matysik

Chapter 13. Homosexuality in the Sexual Ethics of the 1930s: A Values Debate in the Culture Warsbetween Conservatism, Liberalism, and Moral-National RenewalAndreas Pretzel

Chapter 14. Socialist Eugenics and Homosexuality in the GDR: The Case of Günter DörnerFlorian G. Mildenberger

Chapter 15. Sex, Sentiment, and Socialism: Relationship Counseling in the GDR in the Wake of the 1965 Family Law CodeErik Huneke

Chapter 16.Longing, Lust, Violence, Liberation: Discourses on Sexuality on the Radical Left in West Germany, 1969-1972Massimo Perinelli

Postscript: Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good AgainDagmar Herzog

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