Sex after Fascism—The History of Sexuality as Political History?

Authors

  • Pascal Eitler Universität Bielefeld, Fakultät für Geschichtswissenschaft

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/412

Keywords:

Macht, Nationalsozialismus, Sexualität, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

Dagmar Herzog’s study offers a first and therefore noteworthy overview of the history of sexuality in twentieth-century Germany from the perspective of the history of the body and gender, a study that, however, is in need of supplementation. The central focus of the study is the changing relationship between sexuality and the politics of confronting the past in the Federal Republic of Germany. The book pays particular attention to the politicization of sexuality around 1968. The Adenauer-Era and National Socialism are, for the most part, attended to merely in retrospective. The title of the American original edition expresses this focus clearly: Sex after Fascism.

Published

2006-03-08