Urning

Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-02-01
Mått155 x 231 x 27 mm
Vikt500 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor284
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781487555603

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Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
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AcknowledgmentsNotes on TerminologyIntroduction: The Age of the Urning BeginsPart One: 1862−1871 1. The First Urning: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, 1825–18952. From Page to Personhood: The Transmission of Urningtum, 1864–18683. Two Trials: Sensation, Horror, and the Urning in the Public Sphere, 1867–18704. Sins of the City: Karl Maria Kertbeny and the Social Cross-Dressers, 1865–1880Part Two: 1872–1897 5. The Matchmaker of Switzerland: Jakob Rudolf Forster’s Grassroots Activism in Germanic Switzerland, 1878–18976. Queering Psychiatry: Autobiographical Lobbying of Richard von Krafft-Ebing, 1864–19017. Belling the Cat: Adolf Glaser’s Discreet Police-Liaison in Berlin, 1878–18978. The Comradely Uranian: John Addington Symonds and the English Translation of the Urning, 1889–1893Conclusion: The End of the Urning AgeTimeline of EventsBibliographyIndex

"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)