2015
DOI: 10.1111/glal.12085
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GENDER AND AGENCY BETWEEN ‘SEXUALWISSENSCHAFT’ AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY: THE CASE OF N.O. BODY'S AUS EINES MANNES MÄDCHENJAHREN

Abstract: This article analyses the relationship between the German discourse of ‘Sexualwissenschaft’ and the autobiography of N.O. Body (1907), which gives an account of the girlhood years of the male protagonist. The ideas and methods of sexology in Wilhelmine Germany, as expressed in particular in the works of Magnus Hirschfeld, will be rethought as prosthetic support for the construction of autobiographical writing of gender and sexual ‘deviants’ in the case of Aus eines Mannes Mädchenjahren and, as such, seen to op… Show more

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“…The academic works produced after the memoir's reprint in 1993 are located in three disciplines: history, literature, and history of medicine/ sexology. Especially literature scholars like Jana Funke, Ina Linge and Stephanie Hilger take the memoir as a starting point for larger observations about the genre of the memoir or the autobiography, sometimes also in connection to the case study (Funke 2011;Linge 2015;Hilger 2016). Katie Sutton and Marion Hulverscheidt situate the memoir in the history of medicine, specifically German sexology (Sutton 2015;Hulverscheidt 2017.…”
Section: Orlando Meier-brixmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The academic works produced after the memoir's reprint in 1993 are located in three disciplines: history, literature, and history of medicine/ sexology. Especially literature scholars like Jana Funke, Ina Linge and Stephanie Hilger take the memoir as a starting point for larger observations about the genre of the memoir or the autobiography, sometimes also in connection to the case study (Funke 2011;Linge 2015;Hilger 2016). Katie Sutton and Marion Hulverscheidt situate the memoir in the history of medicine, specifically German sexology (Sutton 2015;Hulverscheidt 2017.…”
Section: Orlando Meier-brixmentioning
confidence: 99%