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Gay Voices from East Germany
"These interviews are wonderful. Extremely interesting and informative about gay life in East Germany." --John C. Fouts "A fascinating book. As far as I know, it is the first time that working class gays have given us an insight into their lives.... A singular contribution." --George L. Mosse "Lemke's interviews with 14 gay men, mainly working class, not only encompass a range of gay lifestyles... but reflect almost a century of German history.... Ultimately, love and a steady partnership are upheld as the ideal." --Publishers Weekly "These narratives provide helpful insight into daily life in the GDR--a state that highly valued conformity--as lived by a minority rarely acknowledged." --Libr...
Cruel Attachments
Child molesters are widely regarded as the most incorrigible of criminal types, as recidivists who deserve harsh punishment. In Germany today, however, attention has shifted from punishment to court-mandated rehabilitation through therapy. Therapists guide the offender through a process normally assigned to a religious authoritythe transformation of the criminal into a person capable of reintegration into society. "Cruel Attachments" is anthropologist John Borneman s account of the attempt to rehabilitate child sex offenders through therapy. Using select case studies, Borneman follows the experience of offenders from accusation to admission of culpability, through arrest, trial, imprisonment...
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The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
This bibliography, first published in 1957, provides citations to North American academic literature on Europe, Central Europe, the Balkans, the Baltic States and the former Soviet Union. Organised by discipline, it covers the arts, humanities, social sciences, life sciences and technology.
Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany
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Love in the Time of Communism
This pioneering study explores the surprising extent and limits of the GDR's forgotten sexual revolution.
Queer Encounters with Communist Power
How did the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia approach non-heterosexuality? How did young girls and boys come to realize their queer desires and identities within a state known for repressing individuality? What did they do with that self-awareness—and later on, as adults, what strategies did they employ in their everyday dealings with a state that defined homosexuality as a medical diagnosis? Queer Encounters with Communist Power answers these questions as it interweaves groundbreaking queer oral history with meticulous archival research into the discourses on homosexuality and transsexuality in Czechoslovakia from 1948 to 1989.
Being Jewish in the New Germany
"This book was written for an American (Jewish) readership. But some chapters, especially the first two, address the non-specialist, while others, especially the last two, accommodate the expert. The work contains one theme and one thesis. The theme is simple and to be welcomed: Americans, and American Jews in particular, need to understand that Germany has changed and that its Jewish community is made up of more than just a few souls morbidly attached to blood-soaked soil. We are therefore introduced to Jewish writers, politicians and intellectuals; to Jews of Russian origin, German background and Israeli descent; and to the many issues facing today's German-Jewish community of 100,000 plus members. Peck discusses the role of the Holocaust in German and American political life. He relates how Russian Jews have begun to take over community institutions, revitalizing German Jewry especially in Berlin and the provinces. And he compares and contrasts the situation of Turks and Jews today, whom many Germans still perecive as foreign, no matter how acculturated they happen to be. All of this material is interesting, but not new"--Review from H-Net.
The Clinic and the Court
Where do law and medicine converge and diverge in their responses to and understandings of harm and suffering?
Interviewliteratur zum Leben in der DDR
Das Interview ist seit Jahrzehnten in der Wissenschaft, im Journalismus und in der Literatur eine überaus weitverbreitete Kommunikationsform. Innerhalb der Literaturwissenschaft gibt es bisher nahezu gar keine Versuche, sie näher zu analysieren. In schwerpunktmäßiger Ausrichtung auf die Literaturwissenschaft, zugleich unter ständiger Einbeziehung von Fragestellungen der Soziologie, Sozialgeschichte usw. wird untersucht, welche formalen Eigenschaften, welchen Aussage- und Quellenwert Interviews als Interview-Literatur besitzen. Die Analyse, in der zunächst der Begriff der Dokumentarliteratur neu definiert wird, ist dabei ausgerichtet auf den überschaubaren Bestand interviewliterarische...
