TY  - BOOK
AU  - William J. Spurlin
PY  - 2011
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781453901380
TI  - Lost Intimacies
T2  - Rethinking Homosexuality under National Socialism
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-0138-0
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1054430
N2  - Lost Intimacies: Rethinking Homosexuality under National Socialism uses queer theory as a hermeneutic tool with which to read against the grain of heterotextual narratives of the Holocaust and as a way of locating alternative pathways of meaning in dominant Holocaust research. Specifically addressing the racialization of sexuality, the book asks how the politics of sexuality can be more explicitly and systematically theorized, along with state-sanctioned homophobia under Nazism, with a clear recognition that homophobia seldom operated alone, but worked in conjunction with other axes of power, including race, gender, eugenics, and population politics. In theorizing gender and sexuality as entangled axes of analysis, the book allows the specificity of lesbian difference to emerge and challenges the received wisdom that lesbians were not as systematically persecuted under National Socialism. William J. Spurlin questions the wisdom of received scholarship that reduces Nazi fascism to latent homosexuality, and examines the possible implications of Nazi homophobia, and its imbrication with other deployments of power, for the study of contemporary culture where the homophobic impulse continues to reverberate, thereby challenging understandings of history steeped in notions of progressive modernity.
KW  - Deutschland, Politische Verfolgung, Geschichte 1933-1945, Gay study, History, Holocaust study, Homosexualität, Cultural study
LA  - English
ER  -