HISTORY 332
WOMEN’S, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES 331
QUEERING EUROPE:
SEXUALITIES AND POLITICS SINCE 1850
CHRIS WATERS
FALL 2014
course meetings:
classroom:
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:20 – 12:35
Schapiro Hall, room 137
office hours:
Mondays, 2.30 – 3.50 (Hollander Hall, office 324)
Tuesdays, 1:00 – 3:00 (Hollander Hall, office 324)
Thursdays, 4:00 – 6:00 (Tunnel City Café)
[no office hours on Thursday 6th November]
office phone:
home phone:
mobile phone:
e-mail:
413.597.2524
413.458.5119
413.884.2706
[email protected]
Course Description and Goals
This course explores the construction, articulation, and politics of queer sexual desire in Europe from the
mid-nineteenth century to the present. By placing queer sexualities in their broader social and political
context, the course examines the ways in which sexuality has become central to questions of identity –
both personal and national – in modern European societies. Topics include: the role of the new science
of sexology in specifying various ‘sexual perversions’ in the late nineteenth century; the rise of sexual
undergrounds in the context of European urbanization; the birth of modern campaigns for ‘homosexual
emancipation’; the attempts to regulate and suppress ‘deviant’ sexualities, especially under the fascist
regimes in the 1930s; the effects of the postwar consumer revolution on the practices of sexual selfhood;
postwar sex change procedures and debates; the politics of 1950s homophile organizing, the 1970s Gay
Liberation Movement, and queer life in 1980s East Germany; the recent politics of homonormalization
and the articulation of queer Muslim identities in contemporary Europe. The course will focus primarily on
Britain, Germany, and France, and to a lesser extent on Italy and Russia and other parts of Europe. The
readings for the course will be drawn from sexological texts, political tracts, memoirs, and the writings of
recent historians and theorists. Several films will also be screened for the course, central to the various
themes that will be addressed.
In addition to offering a chronological history of modern ‘queer Europe’, the course will also interrogate
the meanings of the term ‘queer’ and explore what queer historical practices look like, or should look like.
In addition to tracing the history of those individuals who would claim to occupy various, recognizable
categories of identity, the course will also explore how those identity categories have been brought into
existence and how we might begin to make sense of historical understandings of the self that might
appear alien to us today.
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The Course and the Exploring Diversity Initiative
‘Queering Europe’ meets the requirements of the Exploring Diversity Initiative insofar as it explores how
sexual difference has been constituted, contested, and experienced and how what we assume to be the
‘sexual norm’ has a profoundly political history.
Assigned Readings
The following three books have been ordered for HIST 332 / WGSS 331 and are available for purchase in
Water Street Books:
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Dagmar Herzog, Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth-Century History (Cambridge University Press,
2011), pbk. ISBN-13: 978-0-521-69143-7.
Michel Foucault, Herculine Barbin (Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a NineteenthCentury French Hermaphrodite (Vintage Books, 2010 ed.), pbk. ISBN-13: 978-0394738628.
Matt Houlbrook, Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957
(University of Chicago Press, 2005), pbk. ISBN-13: 978-0226-354620.
Dagmar Herzog’s Sexuality in Europe will serve as our starting point, providing valuable context and a
general overview of the history of sexuality in modern Europe. The course is divided into five broad topics
(parts 1-5) organized largely chronologically, albeit with the initial topic focusing more on methodology.
Prior to each of these five topics specific pages from Herzog’s text have been assigned; these should be
read before we immerse ourselves in the topics for which Herzog’s text serves as an introduction. For
some of our class meetings, you are asked to refamiliarize yourself with specific pages from Herzog’s text
that are germane to the topic of that meeting.
Most of the readings for HIST 332 / WGSS 331 are to be found in the general course reader, available
from Office Services at 51 Park Street (open only from 9:00-3:30). The course reader consists of excerpts
from various books, articles, and primary documents, all organized in the order to be read for the course.
Given that there are only three books to be purchased for the class, the course reader is a weighty tome
and assembled in three volumes. Volume one consists of readings for Topics One and Two; volume two
consists of readings for Topic Three; and volume three consists of readings for Topics Four and Five. The
first volume will be available when classes begin; the second and third volumes will be available when
required, later in the semester.
All readings should be undertaken in the order listed on the syllabus. All readings from the three books
ordered for the course are marked with an asterisk (*) on the syllabus; readings from the three-volume
reading packet are marked with a plus sign (+).
All readings should be brought to class so that specific pages and passages can be referred to in our
discussions.
Films
In addition to completing all the readings for the class, you are expected to view five films and complete
the various readings related to them for class discussion. The viewing of these films is a mandatory part
of the class. Each of the films will be screened for the class as a group (the date and time are listed on
the syllabus, below). The films are also on reserve in Sawyer Library and can be viewed outside of the
formal class screening (although they will not be available during the period when they will be removed
for the public screenings). All five films can also be watched on YouTube (with English subtitles for the
German films), although not always of the highest quality. Specific links to the version of each film that
should be watched can be found on the course’s GLOW page.
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Guest Lecture
Dagmar Herzog, Professor of History at the City University of New York and author of the main text for
the course and of many other books and articles on German history and the history of sexuality, will be
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speaking at Williams on Monday 15 September, from 4:30-6:00. The topic of her talk is ‘Sexuality in
Europe: A Twentieth-Century History – and a History of the Present’. Attendance at her talk is mandatory.
Evaluation
HIST 332 / WGSS 331 will be taught primarily via discussion, with very brief lectures at the end of each
class framing the reading for the next meeting. Demonstration in-class of a familiarity with the reading is
essential and students will be called on during our discussions and are expected regularly to be full
participants in class discussion.
Formal evaluation in the course will be based on the following criteria:
1) Four response papers and class discussion
Students are expected to prepare FOUR response papers
(of approximately 250-300 words each), both identifying
the major themes addressed in the readings for four class
meetings of their choice and raising questions about
those readings to be discussed in class. Students can
choose which four class meetings they wish to write
about; a sign-up list will be circulated on the second
day of classes. All four response papers MUST be
posted on the course’s GLOW site (or circulated
via email to everybody in class) BY 9:00 pm ON
THE EVENING BEFORE THE CLASS MEETING IN
WHICH THE READINGS WILL BE DISCUSSED.
Papers will be penalized by one-third of a grade
for each two-hour period they are late. No more
than two students will be permitted to write on any
one session. The grades for the response papers
and participation in class discussion will, combined,
account for 25% of the student’s final grade.
25% of student’s final grade
2) Two 7-8 page interpretive essays
TWO 7-8 page interpretive essays will be assigned,
each counting 25% of the final grade. The first essay
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will be due on Monday 13 October, during Fall
Reading Period; the second essay will be due on
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Sunday 16 November. A choice of several topics
will be offered for each essay assignment, all based
on the material we have read for and discussed in
class. Papers will be penalized one-third of a
grade for each day (24-hour period) they are late,
including weekends.
50% of student’s final grade
3) A final research paper of 12-15 pages
A final research paper on a topic of the student’s own
choosing (arranged in discussions with the instructor)
will be the culminating assignment for the course, due
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during final exam period and no later than Friday 12
December.
25% of student’s final grade
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Some Final Points
Given that this course, more than most, is cumulative in nature – that what we do builds upon what we
have already done – regular attendance and participation in class discussions will be stressed and
absences will be noted accordingly. Your final grade will be dropped by 1/3 of a grade point after
each TWO absences.
The use of LAPTOPS and other electronic devices in class is not customarily permitted.
All written work undertaken for the class must be your own and in your papers the work of others must be
appropriately cited. I draw your attention to the important provisions of the Honor Code as detailed in the
College’s Student Handbook; all cases of plagiarism will be reported accordingly.
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SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS
session one: Thursday 4th September
COURSE INTRODUCTION
No reading.
PART ONE
CONCEPTUALIZING QUEER EUROPE:
SOME STARTING POINTS
background preparation:
* Dagmar Herzog, Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth-Century History (2011),
introduction (pp. 1-5)
session two: Tuesday 9th September
GAY / LESBIAN / QUEER:
FRAMEWORKS (70 pages +)
* [review Herzog, Sexuality in Europe, introduction (pp. 1-5).]
+ Annamarie Jagosse, Queer Theory (1996), introduction (pp. 1-6), chaps. 7-8 (pp. 72-126).
+ Henry Abelove, ‘Queering Lesbian and Gay History’, Radical History Review 62 (Spring 1995),
pp. 45-57.
[In addition to the readings for both today and Thursday, begin reading Michel Foucault’s book,
Herculine Barbin, as we will be discussing the book in its entirety next Tuesday.]
session three: Thursday 11th September
GAY / LESBIAN / QUEER:
HISTORICAL PRACTICES (75 pages)
+ David Halperin, ‘How to Do the History of Male Homosexuality’, in Halperin, How to Do the History
of Homosexuality (2002), chap. 4 (pp. 104-37).
+ Laura Doan, Disturbing Practices: History, Sexuality, and Women’s Experience of Modern War
(2012), introduction (pp. 1-6 and 11-17 only), chap. 1 (pp. 27-32 only), chap. 2 (pp. 58-71,
76-80, and 89-93 only).
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special session:
Monday 15th September, 4:30-6:00
Professor Dagmar Herzog (CUNY),
‘Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth-Century History – and a History of the Present’
session four: Tuesday 16th September
HERCULINE BARBIN:
NARRATIVES OF THE SELF (200 pages)
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Michel Foucault, Herculine Barbin, Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century
French Hermaphrodite (1980), entire.
PART TWO
THE SEXOLOGICAL MOMENT
LOVE, LUST, SCIENCE, AND SCANDAL, c.1850-1920
background preparation:
* Dagmar Herzog, Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth-Century History (2011),
chap. 1 (pp. 6-44)
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session five: Thursday 18th September
BETWEEN WOMEN:
THE QUEER WORLD OF WOMEN’S FRIENDSHIPS IN VICTORIAN BRITAIN (115 pages)
+ Martha Vicinus, Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928 (2004), introduction
(pp. xv-xxix only), chap. 1 (pp. 5-11 only), chap 4 (pp 85-88 and 98-108 only).
+ Sharon Marcus, Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England (2007),
introduction (pp. 1-2 and 5-22 only), chap. 1 (pp. 25-32 and 43-62 only), chap. 3 (pp. 111-16
and 149-66 only), chap. 5 (pp. 193-204 and 222-26 only), conclusion (pp. 257-62).
session six: Tuesday 23rd September
CATALOGUING DEVIANTS:
RICHARD VON KRAFFT-EBING AND THE SEXOLOGICAL SUBJECT (100 pages +)
* [review Herzog, Sexuality in Europe, pp. 28-35.]
+ Chris Waters, ‘Sexology’, in H.G. Cocks and Matt Houlbrook, eds., Palgrave Advances in the
Modern History of Sexuality (2006), chap. 2 (pp. 41-63).
+ Harry Oosterhuis, Stepchildren of Nature: Krafft-Ebing, Psychiatry, and the Making of Sexual
Identity (2000), introduction (pp. 1-17), chaps. 10-11 (pp. 139-73), chaps. 13-15 (pp. 185-230).
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session seven: Thursday 25 September
THE SOTADIC ZONE:
RICHARD BURTON AND THE QUEERNESS OF STRANGERS (100 pages)
+ Dane Kennedy, The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World (2005),
introduction (pp. 1-9), chap. 7 (pp. 206-47).
+ Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night [The Arabian Nights] (1885-86),
vol. 10, ‘Terminal Essay’, section D, ’Pederasty’, pp. 205-54.
session eight: Tuesday 30th September
THE SEDUCTION OF THE MEDITERRANEAN:
WILHELM VON GLOEDEN AND FREDERICK ROLFE (BARON CORVO)
IN ITALY (80 pages)
+ Robert Aldrich, The Seduction of the Mediterranean: Writing, Art and Homosexual Fantasy (1993),
‘Baron Corvo’ (pp. 91-93), ‘Wilhelm von Gloeden’ (pp. 143-52), conclusion (pp. 217-24).
+ Dominic Janes, ‘Frederick Rolfe’s Christmas Cards: Popular Culture and the Construction of
Queerness in Late Victorian Britain’, Early Popular Visual Culture 10, no. 2 (May 2012),
pp. 105-24.
+ F.R. Rolfe, Baron Corvo, The Venice Letters, edited and introduced by Cecil Woolf (1974),
introduction (pp. 7-13) and excerpts from letters 2, 6, 7, 10, 11 (pp. 16-18, 28-40,
44-6, 50-3).
+ Vincenzo Mirisola and Guiseppe Vanzella, Sicilia Mitica Arcadia: Von Gloeden e la ‘Scuola’ di
Taormina (2004), excerpts from introductory essays by Mirisola and Vanzella (English
translations, even pages, pp. 8-12, 16, 24-38).
+ Jason Goldman, ‘“The Golden Age of Gay Porn”: Nostalgia and the Photography of Wilhelm von
Gloeden’, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 12, no. 2 (2006), pp. 237-58.
[ALSO, study the photographs by von Gloeden on the course’s GLOW site, where you will find a copy of
the article by Domenic Janes in which many of the Christmas cards are in full color.]
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session nine: Thursday 2nd October
SCANDAL IN WILDE TIMES:
OSCAR WILDE AND HIS LEGACY (115 pages +)
* [review Herzog, Sexuality in Europe, pp. 35-41.]
+ ‘The Wilde Trials, 1895’ – selection of documents (including letters, trial proceeding, poems,
newspaper reports, etc), reproduced in Chris White, ed., Nineteenth-Century Writings on
Homosexuality: A Sourcebook (1999), pp. 49-62.
+ Morris B. Kaplan, Sodom on the Thames: Sex, Love, and Scandal in Wilde Times (2005), part 4
(pp. 224-51).
+ Neil Bartlett, Who Was That Man? A Present for Mr Oscar Wilde (1988), introduction (pp. xix-xxii),
chap. 1 (pp. 23-37), chap. 2 (pp. 39-54 only), chap 5 (pp. 93-103, 125-49, and 159-62 only),
chap. 6 (pp. 163-71), chap. 9 (pp. 211-13).
session ten: Tuesday 7th October
FROM URANIANS AND INVERTS TO HOMOSEXUALS:
THE COMPETING CLAIMS OF EDWARD CARPENTER, HAVELOCK ELLIS, AND SIGMUND
FREUD (75 pages)
+ Sheila Rowbotham, Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love (2008), chap. 10 (pp. 179-95).
+ Edward Carpenter, ‘The Intermediate Sex’, in The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional
Types of Men and Women (1908), pp. 16-38.
+ Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds, Sexual Inversion (1897), preface, excerpts from chap.
4 (‘Sexual Inversion in Women’), chap. 6 (‘The Theory of Sexual Inversion’), cases 3, 28, and
27, and excerpts from the conclusion – all reproduced in Chris White, ed., Nineteenth-Century
Writings on Homosexuality: A Sourcebook (1999), pp. 94-104.
+ Sigmund Freud, ‘The Sexual Aberrations’, in Freud, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905);
Freud, ‘Letter to an American Mother’, first published in the American Journal of Psychiatry
107 (1951), p. 787.
session eleven: Thursday 9th October
QUEER SELVES, QUEER WORLDS IN LATE TSARIST AND REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA
(100 pages)
+ Dan Healey, Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender
Dissent (2001), chaps. 1-4 (pp. 21-125).
Monday 13th October *** FIRST ESSAYS DUE ***
FIRST ESSAYS DUE MONDAY 13th OCTOBER BY 5:00 pm in MY OFFICE DOOR BOX
OR SENT AS AN EMAIL ATTACHMENT (word or pdf document).
Tuesday 14th October
NO CLASS – FALL READING PERIOD (but note the evening film screening).
special session – film screening:
Tuesday 14th October, 7:00 pm
Anders als die Andern (dir. by Richard Oswald, Germany, 1919, 50 min.)
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PART THREE
QUEER LIVES IN WAR AND PEACE, c.1914-1945
background preparation:
* Dagmar Herzog, Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth-Century History (2011),
chap. 2 (pp. 45-95)
session twelve: Thursday 16th October
MAGNUS HIRSCHFELD AND THE SEXUAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE FIRST WORLD
WAR (70 pages +)
* [review Herzog, Sexuality in Europe, pp. 45-56.]
+ Elena Mancini, Magnus Hirschfeld and the Quest for Sexual Freedom: A History of the First
International Sexual Freedom Movement (2010), prologue (pp. ix-xvii).
+ Magnus Hirschfeld, The Sexual History of the World War (1941 English language edition),
introduction (pp. 11-22), chap. 7 (pp. 124-40).
+ Richard Dyer (with Julianne Pidduck), Now You See It: Studies in Lesbian and Gay Film
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(2 ed., 2003), chap 2 (pp. 23-42 only).
+ James D. Steakley, ‘Cinema and Censorship in the Weimar Republic: The Case of Anders als
die Andern’, Film History 11, no. 2 (1999), pp. 181-203.
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session thirteen: Tuesday 21st October
OUT AND ABOUT IN THE CITY:
LONDON’S QUEER URBAN PRACTICES (170 pages)
*
Matt Houlbrook, Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957 (2005),
introduction (pp. 1-13); part one (‘Policing’), chap. 1 (pp. 19-31 only); part two (‘Places’),
intro. (pp. 40-2), chap. 2 (pp.43-67), chap. 3 (pp. 68-92), chap. 4 (pp. 93-102 only); part
three (‘People’), intro. (pp 136-7), chap. 6 (pp. 139-66), chap. 7 (pp. 167-94), chap. 8
(pp. 195-208 only); part four (‘Politics’), chap. 9 (pp. 221-36 only); conclusion (pp. 264-71).
session fourteen: Thursday 23rd October
FINDING ONESELF IN INTERWAR BRITAIN – FOUR STORIES:
VIOLET DOUGLAS-PENNANT, KATHERINE EVERETT, COLONEL BARKER,
AND MISS OGILVY (85 pages +)
* [review Herzog, Sexuality in Europe, pp. 56-61 and 75-82.]
+ Laura Doan, Disturbing Practices: History, Sexuality, and Women’s Experience of Modern War
(2012), chap. 4 (pp. 134-63).
+ Mo Moulton, ‘Bricks and Flowers: Unconventionality and Queerness in Katherine Everett’s Life
Writing’, chap. 3 in Brian Lewis, ed., British Queer History: New Approaches and Perspectives
(2013), pp. 63-86.
+ James Vernon, ‘“For Some Queer Reason”: The Trials and Tribulations of Colonel Barker’s
Masquerade in Interwar Britain’, Signs 26, no. 1 (Autumn 2000), pp. 37-62.
+ Radclyffe Hall, ‘Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself’ (1926), with editor’s introduction, in Terry Castle, ed.,
The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall (2003),
pp. 632-48.
special session – film screening:
Sunday 26th October, 7:00 pm
Mädchen in Uniform (dir. by Leotine Sagan and Carl Froelich, Germany, 1931, 84 min.)
session fifteen: Tuesday 28th October
FEMALE MASCULINITY IN INTERWAR GERMANY (90 pages)
+ Katie Sutton, The Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany (2011), introduction (pp. 1-24), chap. 1
(pp. 25-52 only), chap. 3 (pp. 90-125), chap. 4 (pp. 126-9 and 142-7 only).
+ Richard Dyer (with Julianne Pidduck), Now You See It: Studies in Lesbian and Gay Film
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(2 ed., 2003), chap 2 (pp. 42-62 only).
session sixteen: Thursday 30th October
DEGENERATES:
NAZI GERMANY, FASCIST ITALY, AND THE HOMOSEXUAL ‘PROBLEM’ (115 pages +)
* [review Herzog, Sexuality in Europe, pp. 61-75 and 83-86.]
+ Günter Grau, ed., Hidden Holocaust: Gay and Lesbian Persecution in Germany 1933-45 (1993;
English trans., 1995), introductory essays by Günter Grau, ‘“Persecution”, “Re-education”
or “Eradication” of Male Homosexuals between 1933 and 1945’ (pp. 1-7) and Claudia
Schoppmann, ‘The Position of Lesbian Women in the Nazi Period’ (pp. 8-15), and the various
documents photocopied from the following pages: 26-9, 31-3, 51-3, 64-76, 81-2, 86-91, 95-9,
110-15, 162-6, 221-3, 230-3, 246-9, 258-61, 264-70.
+ Lorenzo Benadusi, ‘Private Life and Public Morals: Fascism and the “Problem” of Homosexuality’,
Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions 5, no. 2 (Autumn 2004), pp. 171-204.
+ Michael R. Ebner, ‘The Persecution of Homosexual Men under Fascism’, in Perry Willson, ed.,
Gender, Family and Sexuality: The Private Sphere in Italy, 1860-1945 (2004), pp. 139-56.
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PART FOUR
FROM THE RESPECTABLE HOMOPHILE TO GAY LIBERATION AND
BEYOND, c.1945-1989
background preparation:
* Dagmar Herzog, Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth-Century History (2011),
chaps. 3-4 (pp. 96-175), chap. 5 (pp. 176-95 only)
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session seventeen: Tuesday 4th November
DOMESTICITY, RESPECTABILITY, AND THE SOCIAL:
HOMOPHILE IDENTITIES AND POLITICS IN BRITAIN AND FRANCE
(115 pages +)
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[review Herzog, Sexuality in Europe, pp. 117-26 (mid-page).]
Matt Houlbrook, Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957 (2005),
chap. 10 (pp. 241-63).
+ Chris Waters, ‘The Homosexual as a Social Being, 1945-1968’, Journal of British Studies 51,
no. 3 (July 2012), pp. 685-710.
+ Julian Jackson, Living in Arcadia: Politics and Morality in France from the Liberation to AIDS
(2009), introduction (pp. 1-15); part two, introduction (pp. 56-7), chap. 3 (pp. 58-68 only),
chap. 5 (pp. 111-33), chap. 6 (pp. 134-40, 145-7, and 149-50 only); conclusion (pp. 242-53).
special session – film screening:
Tuesday 4th November, 7:00 pm
Anders als Du und Ich (dir. by Veit Harlan, West Germany, 1957, 92 min.)
session eighteen: Thursday 6th November
RESPECTABILITY DENIED:
THE POLITICS OF QUEER EROS IN THE NEW FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
(95 pages +)
* [review Herzog, Sexuality in Europe, pp. 126 (‘also…’) -31.]
+ Clayton Whisnant, Male Homosexuality in West Germany: Between Persecution and Freedom,
1945-69 (2012), chap. 2 (pp. 15-17, 22-36, and 43-63 only) – pay careful attention to
pp. 51-2 on the film.
+ Jennifer V. Evans ‘Bahnhof Boys: Policing Male Prostitution in Post-Nazi Berlin’, Journal of the
History of Sexuality 12, no. 4 (October 2003), pp. 605-36.
+ Robert G. Moeller, ‘“The Homosexual Man is a ‘Man,’ the Homosexual Woman is a ‘Woman’”: Sex,
Society, and the Law in Postwar West Germany’, Journal of the History of Sexuality 4, no. 3
(January 1994), pp. 395-429.
+ Heide Fehrenbach, Cinema in Democratizing Germany: Reconstructing National Identity after Hitler
(1995), pp. 194-202.
session nineteen: Tuesday 11th November
GENDER, SELFHOOD, AND SEX CHANGE:
THE CASE OF ROBERTA COWELL (110 pages)
+ Roberta Cowell, Roberta Cowell’s Story by Herself (1954), preface (pp. ix-xi), chap. 1 (pp. 1-6 and
10-12 only), chap. 4 (pp. 58-60 only), chap. 5 (pp. 61-2 and 64-81 only), chaps. 6 (pp. 82-87
and 89-91 only), chap. 7 (pp. 96-104 only), chap. 8 (pp. 112-15 and 117-21 only), chaps. 9-11
(pp. 122-54).
+ Bernice L. Hausman, Changing Sex: Transsexualism, Technology, and the Idea of Gender (1995),
introduction (pp. 1-10 only), chap. 4 (pp. 110-11, 116-19, and 136-40), chap. 5 (pp. 141-3
and 146-53).
special session – film screening:
Tuesday 11th November, 7:00 pm
The Killing of Sister George (dir. by Robert Aldrich, USA/UK, 1968, 140 min.)
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session twenty: Thursday 13th November
‘BUTCHES’ AND PREJUDICE:
DOCUMENTING THE ‘LESBIAN’ IN BRITAIN’S SWINGING ‘SIXTIES
(70 pages)
+ Rebecca Jennings, Tomboys and Bachelor Girls: A Lesbian History of Postwar Britain 1945-71
(2007), introduction (pp. 1-6 only), chap. 4 (pp. 106-33).
+ Alison Oram and Annmarie Turnbull, eds., The Lesbian History Sourcebook: Love and Sex Between
Women in Britain from 1780-1970 (2001), assorted documents pertaining to the 1960s
(pp. 197-200 and 218-31).
+ Jill Gardiner, From the Closet to the Screen: Women at the Gateways Club, 1945-85 (2003),
chap. 7 (pp. 132-55).
Sunday 16th November *** SECOND ESSAYS DUE ***
SECOND ESSAYS DUE SUNDAY 16th NOVEMBER by 5:00 pm in MY OFFICE DOOR
BOX OR SENT AS AN EMAIL ATTACHMENT (word or pdf document).
session twenty-one: Tuesday 18th November
DOCUMENTS OF GAY LIBERATION:
BRITAIN AND ITALY IN THE 1970s (105 pages +)
* [review Herzog, Sexuality in Europe, pp. 146-52 and 168-71.]
+ ‘Gay Liberation Front Manifesto’ (1971), reproduced as appendix 2 in Lisa Power, No Bath But
Plenty of Bubbles: An Oral History of the Gay Liberation Front, 1970-73 (1995), pp. 316-30.
+ ‘Psychiatry and the Homosexual: A Brief Analysis of Oppression’ (Gay Liberation pamphlet no. 1,
London, 1978), pp. 1-29.
+ Mario Mieli, Homosexuality and Liberation: Elements of a Gay Critique, translated by David
Fernbach (1977; English trans. 1980), preface (pp. 18-19), chap. 1 (pp. 21-38 only),
chap. 2 (pp. 53-72), chap. 3 (pp. 106-21 only), chap. 7 (pp. 212-17 and 228-30 only).
special session – film screening:
Tuesday 18th November, 7:00 pm
Coming Out (dir. by Heiner Carow, East Germany, 1989, 108 min.)
session twenty-two: Thursday 20th November
‘COMING OUT’ IN THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC:
THE PROTOKOLLIERUNG OF EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE TIME OF COMMUNISM
(90 pages +)
* [review Herzog, Sexuality in Europe, pp. 183-7.]
+ Josie McLellan, Love in the Time of Communism: Intimacy and Sexuality in the GDR (2011),
introduction (pp. 1-16 only), chap. 5 (pp. 114-43).
+ John Borneman, ed., Gay Voices from East Germany: Interviews by Jürgen Lemke (1991),
introduction (pp. 1-9); part two, ‘Reinhold and Bert’ (pp. 37-61).
+ Kenneth Plummer, Telling Sexual Stories: Power, Change and Social Worlds (1994), chap. 4
(pp. 49-50 and 52-8 only), chap. 6 (pp. 81-96).
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PART FIVE
QUEER PASTS / QUEER PRESENT
background preparation:
* Dagmar Herzog, Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth-Century History (2011),
chap. 5 (pp. 195-217 only), epilogue (pp. 218-21)
session twenty-three: Tuesday 25th November (or Sun. 23rd or Mon. 24th Nov.)
FROM JEWISH COMMUNITY TO QUEER COMMUNITY:
LONGING AND BELONGING IN PARIS (110 pages +)
* [review Herzog, Sexuality in Europe, pp. 176-83.]
+ David Caron, My Father and I: The Marais and the Queerness of Community (2009), prologue
(pp. 1-21), chap. 1 (pp. 25-46 and 55-74 only), chap. 2 (pp. 75-109), chap. 4 (pp. 150-60 only),
chap. 5 (pp. 183-206).
Thursday 27th November
NO CLASS. Happy Thanksgiving!
session twenty-four: Tuesday 2nd December
BURTON REVISITED; OR, EUROPEAN HOMONORMATIVITY
AND QUEER MUSLIMS (70 pages +)
* [review Herzog, Sexuality in Europe, pp. 195-205.]
+ Maxime Cervulle, ‘French Homonormativity and the Commodification of the Arab Body’, Radical
History Review 100 (Winter 2008), pp. 171-9.
+ Joseph A. Massad, Desiring Arabs (2007), introduction (pp. 1-11 and 37-47 only), chap. 3
(pp. 160-90).
+ Fatima El-Tayeb, ‘“Gays Who Cannot Properly be Gay”. Queer Muslims in the Neo-Liberal European
City’, in Matt Cook and Jennifer V. Evans, eds., Queer Cities, Queer Cultures: Europe since
1945 (2014), chap. 13 (pp. 263-81).
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session twenty-five: Thursday 4th December
EUROVISIONS AND HOMOMONUMENTS (65 pages +)
* [review Herzog, Sexuality in Europe, pp. 218-21.]
+ Jennifer V. Evans, ‘Harmless Kisses and Infinite Loops: Making Space for Queer Place in TwentyFirst Century Berlin’, and Ralph J. Poole, ‘Istanbul: Queer Desires between Muslim Tradition
and Global Pop’, both in Matt Cook and Jennifer V. Evans, eds., Queer Cities, Queer Cultures:
Europe since 1945 (2014), chaps. 4 and 9 (pp. 75-94 and 171-90).
+ Robert Dean Tobin, ‘Eurovision at 50: Post-Wall and Post-Stonewall’, and Dafna Lemish, ‘Gay
Brotherhood: Israeli Gay Men and the Eurovision Song Contest’, both in Ivan Raykoff and
Robert Deam Tobin, eds., A Song for Europe: Popular Music and Politics in the Eurovision
Song Contest (2007), chaps. 3 and 11 (pp. 25-35 and 123-34).
+ Julie A. Cassiday, ‘Post-Soviet Pop Goes Gay: Russia’s Trajectory to Eurovision Victory’, Russian
Review 73 (January 2014), pp. 1-23.
[Explore the Eurovision Song Contest on the web, and especially last year’s winner, Conchita Wurst.]
**** FINAL PAPERS ARE DUE NO LATER THAN FRIDAY DECEMBER 12th BY 5:00 PM ****