Sex after Fascism

[Dave Monroe]

Herzog, Dagmar.  Sex after Fascism:
   Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany.
   Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2005.

What is the relationship between sexual and other
kinds of politics? Few societies have posed this
puzzle as urgently, or as disturbingly, as Nazi
Germany. What exactly were Nazism's sexual politics?
Were they repressive for everyone, or were some
individuals and groups given sexual license while
others were persecuted, tormented, and killed? How do
we make sense of the evolution of postwar
interpretations of Nazism's sexual politics? What do
we make of the fact that scholars from the 1960s to
the present have routinely asserted that the Third
Reich was "sex-hostile"?

In response to these and other questions, Sex after
Fascism fundamentally reconceives central topics in
twentieth-century German history. Among other things,
it changes the way we understand the immense popular
appeal of the Nazi regime and the nature of
antisemitism, the role of Christianity in the
consolidation of postfascist conservatism in the West,
the countercultural rebellions of the 1960s-1970s, as
well as the negotiations between government and
citizenry under East German communism. Beginning with
a new interpretation of the Third Reich's sexual
politics and ending with the revisions of Germany's
past facilitated by communism's collapse, Sex after
Fascism examines the intimately intertwined histories
of capitalism and communism, pleasure and state
policies, religious renewal and secularizing trends.

A history of sexual attitudes and practices in
twentieth-century Germany, investigating such issues
as contraception, pornography, and theories of sexual
orientation, Sex after Fascism also demonstrates how
Germans made sexuality a key site for managing the
memory and legacies of Nazism and the Holocaust.

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7955.html
   
Introduction

http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i7955.html

http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i7955.pdf




 
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