Different from the Others

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Different from the Others

German and Dutch Discourses of Queer Femininity and Female Desire, 1918-1940

Sturgess, Cyd

Berghahn Books

03/2026

368

Mole

Inglês

9781836953975

15 a 20 dias

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Acknowledgements

Abbreviations and Translations



Introduction

"Good" and "Bad" Femininities

Locating the "Fem(me)" in Histories of Sexuality

Labels and Names

Queer Historiographical Methods?Setting the Parameters for Historical Research



Part I: Socio-Medical Discourses



Chapter 1. Sex and the Cities - Locating Queer Feminine Desires

'A Child of War'

A Conservative Modernity

Living Apart Together

The (Not So) Frivolous Flapper

'Bubis' and 'Maedis'

Little Baskets and Cautionary Owls

Queer Activism in the City

Policing Same-Sex Desires

Conclusions



Chapter 2. Sexual Science - The Queer Feminine Mystique

The Emergence of a Scientia Sexualis

Ideal Women, Ideal Marriages

Queer Female Desire At the Margins: Early Theories of Same-Sex Desires

Somatic Signifiers: Questions of Queer Legitimac

Intermediary Forms: Spectrums and Hierarchies of Queer Desire

Femininity as a (Queer) Woman's Right

Seductive Don Juans and Curable Queers

Conclusions



Part II: Community Discourses

Introduction



Chapter 3. Fashioning Femininities in the Weimar Periodicals The Girlfriend and Love of Women

The Girlfriend: 'Journal for Ideal Friendship'

Women's Love: 'Friendship, Love and Sexual Emancipation'

Discursive Divisions within Berlin's Queer Subculture

Defining the Parameters of the Feminine

Literary Discourses and Feminine Desire

Fashioning Femininities

Trans Femininities

Anti-Feminine Discourses

Conclusions



Chapter 4. Marys and Mollys: Finding the Queer Feminine on the Dutch Press Landscape

The Cult of Domesticity

Beatrice (1939-1967)

The Young Woman (1924-1938)

We (1932)

The Right to Live (1940-1946)

Conclusions



Part III: Fictional Discourses

Introduction



Chapter 5. A Mother's Love: Eva Raedt-de Canter's Internaat (1930) and Christa Winsloe's Das Maedchen Manuela (1933)

Eva Raedt-de Canter

Christa Winsloe

Boarding School (1930)

The Girl Manuela (1933)

'Alone in the World': Dynamic Desires in Boarding School

'I want to be a boy': Queering Sexological Tropes in The Girl Manuela

A Mother's Love

"Confessions" and "Comings-Out": Queer Desires as Queer Identities?

Conclusions



Chapter 6. When Object Becomes Subject: Feminine Protagonists in Anne E. Weirauch's The Scorpion (1919-1931) and Josine Reuling's Back to the Island (1937)

Anna E. Weirauch

Josine Reuling

The Scorpion (1919-1931)

Back to the Island (1937)

Challenging Sexological Frameworks

Femininity in the Foreground

Hierarchies of Gender and Desire

Mother-Love and "Nonlesbian" Subjects

Conclusions



Conclusion



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