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- Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century
- Publication Date
- 2024-02-01
- ISBN
- 9781487555603
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
ISBN-10
1487555601
ISBN-13
9781487555603
eBay Product ID (ePID)
18067509273
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
284 Pages
Publication Name
Urning : Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century
Language
English
Subject
Europe / Germany, Sociology / General, Gender Studies, Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies
Publication Year
2024
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2023-526149
Dewey Edition
23/eng/20230911
Reviews
"Douglas Pretsell's new book contributes to a lively reassessment of the interpretation of sexual knowledge (especially the emerging field of sexology) in relation to how real people understood themselves, to public consciousness of sexual difference, and to emancipation activism. What we see here is the strong degree to which queer people self-consciously intervened in their own representation, leading to - but also pushing against - the understandings of sexuality we take for granted today."--Scott Spector, Rudolf Mrazek Collegiate Professor of History and German Studies, University of Michigan "By delving into unexplored archives of correspondence between Ulrichs and those who surrounded him, Pretsell undertakes an important new 'history from below.' He unpacks how a generation of men came to understand - and value - themselves as urnings, laying the groundwork for future generations of activists and queers. This is a scrupulously researched, insightful, and important book."--Katie Sutton, Associate Professor of German and Gender Studies, Australian National University "This book is a major contribution to the study of an essential transition period in our understanding of the urning/homosexual."--Hubert Kennedy, Author of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs: Pioneer of the Modern Gay Movement "Urningtells the inspirational story of a group of nineteenth-century visionaries who pioneered what we now call LGBTQ+ consciousness and the struggle for queer freedom. They risked all to challenge the homophobic consensus a century before the 1969 Stonewall uprising. A fascinating hidden history revealed." --Peter Tatchell, Activist and Director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation, "Pretsell's Urning is a much-needed addition to the existing scholarship on the beginnings of modern queer history. Thoroughly researched and engaging with that literature with admirable prowess and argumentative confidence, it challenges Foucauldian paradigms and traditional (bourgeois, metronormative) understandings of queer history."--Mathias Foit, Fachhochschule des Mittelstands, Journal of Homosexuality "I am absolutely positive that Douglas Pretsell's Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Centuryis a must-have in libraries and university syllabi on the history of sexuality, and that this monograph will be a cornerstone in criticism about same-sex desire in the nineteenth century for many years to come."--Zsolt Bojti, Eötvös Loránd University, The AnaChronisT "Douglas Pretsell's new book contributes to a lively reassessment of the interpretation of sexual knowledge (especially the emerging field of sexology) in relation to how real people understood themselves, to public consciousness of sexual difference, and to emancipation activism. What we see here is the strong degree to which queer people self-consciously intervened in their own representation, leading to - but also pushing against - the understandings of sexuality we take for granted today."--Scott Spector, Rudolf Mrazek Collegiate Professor of History and German Studies, University of Michigan "By delving into unexplored archives of correspondence between Ulrichs and those who surrounded him, Pretsell undertakes an important new 'history from below.' He unpacks how a generation of men came to understand - and value - themselves as urnings, laying the groundwork for future generations of activists and queers. This is a scrupulously researched, insightful, and important book."--Katie Sutton, Associate Professor of German and Gender Studies, Australian National University "This book is a major contribution to the study of an essential transition period in our understanding of the urning/homosexual."--Hubert Kennedy, Author of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs: Pioneer of the Modern Gay Movement "Urningtells the inspirational story of a group of nineteenth-century visionaries who pioneered what we now call LGBTQ+ consciousness and the struggle for queer freedom. They risked all to challenge the homophobic consensus a century before the 1969 Stonewall uprising. A fascinating hidden history revealed." --Peter Tatchell, Activist and Director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation, "Pretsell's Urning is a much-needed addition to the existing scholarship on the beginnings of modern queer history. Thoroughly researched and engaging with that literature with admirable prowess and argumentative confidence, it challenges Foucauldian paradigms and traditional (bourgeois, metronormative) understandings of queer history."--Mathias Foit, Fachhochschule des Mittelstands, Journal of Homosexuality "Douglas Pretsell's new book contributes to a lively reassessment of the interpretation of sexual knowledge (especially the emerging field of sexology) in relation to how real people understood themselves, to public consciousness of sexual difference, and to emancipation activism. What we see here is the strong degree to which queer people self-consciously intervened in their own representation, leading to - but also pushing against - the understandings of sexuality we take for granted today."--Scott Spector, Rudolf Mrazek Collegiate Professor of History and German Studies, University of Michigan "By delving into unexplored archives of correspondence between Ulrichs and those who surrounded him, Pretsell undertakes an important new 'history from below.' He unpacks how a generation of men came to understand - and value - themselves as urnings, laying the groundwork for future generations of activists and queers. This is a scrupulously researched, insightful, and important book."--Katie Sutton, Associate Professor of German and Gender Studies, Australian National University "This book is a major contribution to the study of an essential transition period in our understanding of the urning/homosexual."--Hubert Kennedy, Author of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs: Pioneer of the Modern Gay Movement "Urningtells the inspirational story of a group of nineteenth-century visionaries who pioneered what we now call LGBTQ+ consciousness and the struggle for queer freedom. They risked all to challenge the homophobic consensus a century before the 1969 Stonewall uprising. A fascinating hidden history revealed." --Peter Tatchell, Activist and Director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation
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College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
306.76/62094309034
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Notes on Terminology Introduction: The Age of the Urning Begins Part One: 18621871 1. The First Urning: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, 1825-1895 2. From Page to Personhood: The Transmission of Urningtum, 1864-1868 3. Two Trials: Sensation, Horror, and the Urning in the Public Sphere, 1867-1870 4. Sins of the City: Karl Maria Kertbeny and the Social Cross-Dressers, 1865-1880 Part Two: 1872-1897 5. The Matchmaker of Switzerland: Jakob Rudolf Forster's Grassroots Activism in Germanic Switzerland, 1878-1897 6. Queering Psychiatry: Autobiographical Lobbying of Richard von Krafft-Ebing, 1864-1901 7. Belling the Cat: Adolf Glaser's Discreet Police-Liaison in Berlin, 1878-1897 8. The Comradely Uranian: John Addington Symonds and the English Translation of the Urning, 1889-1893 Conclusion: The End of the Urning Age Timeline of Events Bibliography Index
Synopsis
In 1864, the German jurist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs coined the term "urning" as a word for same-sex attracted men. Over the next few years, first anonymously and then publicly, he campaigned against the public persecution of these men. In response, some of his readers took on the urning terminology for themselves and engaged with Ulrichs to negotiate the finer points of their new identities. In Urning , Douglas Pretsell writes of same-sex attracted men in German-speaking Europe who used the neologism "urning" as a personal identity in the late nineteenth century. This was in the period before other terms such as "homosexual" gained currency. Drawing on letters, memoirs, and psychiatric case studies, the book uses first-hand autobiographical accounts to map out the contours of urning society. Urning further explores individual accounts of some urnings who attempted their own forms of activism to transform the world around them , even though they had no formal organization. As the century drew to a close, the efforts of Ulrichs and his urning followers paved the way for the launch of the world's first homosexual rights organization. Urning argues that the men who called themselves urnings were self-identified, self-constructed agents of their own destinies., In 1864, the German jurist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs coined the term "urning" as a word for same-sex attracted men. Over the next few years, first anonymously and then publicly, he campaigned against the public persecution of these men. In response, some of his readers took on the urning terminology for themselves and engaged with Ulrichs to negotiate the finer points of their new identities. In Urning , Douglas Pretsell writes of same-sex attracted men in German-speaking Europe who used the neologism "urning" as a personal identity in the late nineteenth century. This was in the period before other terms such as "homosexual" gained currency. Drawing on letters, memoirs, and psychiatric case studies, the book uses first-hand autobiographical accounts to map out the contours of urning society. Urning further explores individual accounts of some urnings who attempted their own forms of activism to transform the world around them, even though they had no formal organization. As the century drew to a close, the efforts of Ulrichs and his urning followers paved the way for the launch of the world's first homosexual rights organization. Urning argues that the men who called themselves urnings were self-identified, self-constructed agents of their own destinies., This book profiles men in Germany and beyond who followed Karl Heinrich Ulrichs and adopted his term "urning" as a personal queer identity in the closing decades of the nineteenth century., In 1864, the German jurist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs coined the term "urning" as a word for same-sex attracted men. Over the next few years, first anonymously and then publicly, he campaigned against the public persecution of these men. In response, some of his readers took on the urning terminology for themselves and engaged with Ulrichs to negotiate the finer points of their new identities. In Urning, Douglas Pretsell writes of same-sex attracted men in German-speaking Europe who used the neologism "urning" as a personal identity in the late nineteenth century. This was in the period before other terms such as "homosexual" gained currency. Drawing on letters, memoirs, and psychiatric case studies, the book uses first-hand autobiographical accounts to map out the contours of urning society. Urningfurther explores individual accounts of some urnings who attempted their own forms of activism to transform the world around them, even though they had no formal organization. As the century drew to a close, the efforts of Ulrichs and his urning followers paved the way for the launch of the world's first homosexual rights organization. Urning argues that the men who called themselves urnings were self-identified, self-constructed agents of their own destinies.
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HQ76.2.G3P7 2024
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