1st Edition

Sexuality in Austria Volume 15

Edited By Anton Pelinka Copyright 2009
274 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

Scholars have increasingly been investigating human sexu- ality as an important field of social history in particular national cultures. This volume examines both continuities and changing patterns of sexual behavior in Austria. Sexuality in Austria reflects the broad variety of such recent research. Maria Mesner surveys the growing number of sex counseling organizations in interwar Vienna, some... Read more
I: Topical Essays; Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Austria: An Introduction; Thinking about Sexuality and Gender in Vienna; The Wrath of the “Countess Merviola”: Tabloid Exposé and the Emergence of Homosexual Subjects in Vienna in 1907; Educating Reasonable Lovers: Sex Counseling in Austria in the First Half of the Twentieth Century; Sexual Encounters across (Former) Enemy Boderlines; ‘The Nationalists’ ‘Healthy Sensuality’ was followed by America’s Influence’: Sexuality and Media from National Socialism to the Sexual Revolution; Queering Austria for the New Europe; A Scandal in the Seminart; Romancing the Foreigner? “Fictitious Marriages” and the Crisis between Immigration and Human Rights; II: Forum; Memory Boom: The “Year of Reflection” 2005; Austrian Exhibition-ism: The Year 2005 and Its Commemorations of the Recent Past in Exhibition Catalogues; Of Affluence and Amnesia; III: Book Review; Gabriele Anderl and Alexandra Caruso, eds., NS-Kunstraub in Österreich und die Folgen (Innsbruck: StudienVerlag, 2005); Thomas Klestil, Der Verantwortung verpflichtet: Ansprachen und Vorträge 1992-2004 , ed. Herbert Schambeck (Vienna: Verlag Österreich, 2005); Thomas Hanifle, “Im Zweifel auf Seiten der Schwachen”: Claus Gatterer, Eine Biographie (Innsbruck: Studienverlag, 2005); Hans Seidel, Österreichs Wirtschaft und Wirtschaftspolitik nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg (Vienna: Manz-Verlag, 2005); Ingrid Böhler, Dornbirn in Kriegen und Krisen: 1914-1945 , Innsbrucker Forschungen zur Zeitgeschichte 23 (Innsbruck: Studien Verlag, 2005) Renate Huber, Identität in Bewegung: Zwischen Zugehörigkeit und Differe nz, Vorarlberg 1945-1965 (Innsbruck: Studien Verlag, 2004); Annual Review

Biography

Anton Pelinka