Table Of ContentAFTER THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY
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After Th e History of Sexuality: German Genealogies With and Beyond Foucault
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After Th e History of Sexuality
German Genealogies With and Beyond Foucault
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CONTENTS
List of Figures vii
Introduction. After Th e History of Sexuality? Periodicities,
Subjectivities, Ethics 1
Scott Spector
I. When Was Sexuality? Rethinking Periodization
Chapter 1. After the History of (Male) Homosexuality 17
Helmut Puff
Chapter 2. Sexual Identity and Other Aspects of “Modern” Sexuality:
New Chronologies, Same Old Problem? 31
Merry Wiesner-Hanks
Chapter 3. Interior States and Sexuality in Early Modern Germany 43
Ulinka Rublack
Chapter 4. Saying It with Flowers: Post-Foucauldian Literary History
and the Poetics of Taboo in a Premodern German Love Song
(Walther von der Vogelweide’s “Lindenlied”) 63
Andreas Krass
Chapter 5. Early Nineteenth-Century Sexual Radicalism:
Heinrich Hössli and the Liberals of His Day 76
Robert Deam Tobin
II. Whose Sexuality? Subjectivity, Surveillance, Emancipation
Chapter 6. Anna Rüling, Michel Foucault, and the “Tactical
Polyvalence” of the Female Homosexual 95
Kirsten Leng
Chapter 7. To Police and Protect: Th e Surveillance of Homosexuality
in Imperial Berlin 109
Robert Beachy
Chapter 8. Soliciting Fantasies: Knowing and Not Knowing about
Male Prostitution by Soldiers in Imperial Germany 124
Jeff rey Schneider
Chapter 9. Between Normalization and Resistance: Prostitutes’
Professional Identities and Political Organization in
Weimar Germany 139
Julia Roos
Chapter 10. Writing Love, Feeling Shame: Rethinking Respectability
in the Weimar Homosexual Women’s Movement 156
Marti M. Lybeck
Chapter 11. Transsexual: Herculine Barbin Meets “Liebe Marta” 169
Philipp Sarasin
III. Th e Politics of Sexual Ethics
Chapter 12. Beyond Freedom: A Return to Subjectivity in the
History of Sexuality 185
Tracie Matysik
Chapter 13. Homosexuality in the Sexual Ethics of the 1930s:
A Values Debate in the Culture Wars between Conservatism,
Liberalism, and Moral-National Renewal 202
Andreas Pretzel
Chapter 14. Socialist Eugenics and Homosexuality in the GDR:
Th e Case of Günter Dörner 216
Florian G. Mildenberger
Chapter 15. Sex, Sentiment, and Socialism: Relationship Counseling
in the GDR in the Wake of the 1965 Family Law Code 231
Erik Huneke
Chapter 16. Longing, Lust, Violence, Liberation: Discourses on
Sexuality on the Radical Left in West Germany, 1969–1972 248
Massimo Perinelli
Postscript. Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again 282
Dagmar Herzog
Select Bibliography 287
Contributors 298
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FIGURES
16.1. Agit 883, no. 32, 15 September 1969, cover 255
16.2. Agit 883, no. 13, 8 May 1969, 2 256
16.3. Rote Hilfe, no. 2, 14 February 1972, cover 257
16.4. Agit 883, no. 33, 25 September 1969, 3 259
16.5. Agit 883, no. 77, 19 March 1971, 5 263
16.6. Agit 883, no. 77, 19 March 1971, 10 264
16.7. Agit 883, no. 67, September 1970, 10 266
16.8. Political leafl et distributed by Frankfurter Weiberrat,
November 1968 270
INTRODUCTION
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After Th e History of Sexuality?
Periodicities, Subjectivities, Ethics
SCOTT SPECTOR
Among the numerous eff ects the organization of this domain
[“sexuality”] has undoubtedly had, one is that of having
provided historians with a category so “self-evident” that they
believe they can write a history of sexuality and its repression.
—Michel Foucault (1978)1
What comes after the history of sexuality? More a provocation than a
question, the title of this volume points to a growing body of historical
literature on sexuality in German-speaking lands that gets beyond a certain
impasse its editors and authors have recognized in previous historical work on
sexuality. In the same year that Foucault suggested that historians had engaged
the category of sexuality in an uncritically self-evident way, his landmark La
volonté de savoir (Will to Knowledge), published in French two years earlier,
appeared in English translation as Th e History of Sexuality, volume 1: An Intro-
duction. Th at work made way for a historiography that would move beyond a
sociocultural history of sexual organization and regulation to one that would
take the historian’s understanding of sexuality as one of its objects of analysis.
Yet, as frustrated readers may have noted early on, Foucault’s volume off ers
everything but a road map of how to embark on histories of sexuality “after”
this sociocultural historical model.2 Th ere remains hence the question of where
histories of sexuality are after the History of Sexuality, and particularly after its
decades-long reception by historians.
Th e notion entertained by each of the contributions in this collection is that,
in many very diff erent ways, Foucault’s intervention has governed the forma-
tion of questions in the fi eld, as well as assumptions about how some of these
questions should be answered. On the one hand, some of his revolutionary
insights can be said to have ossifi ed into dogmas or truisms within the fi eld of
