Racism and the Making of Gay Rights
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-2397-8 (ISBN)
In 1931, a sexologist arrived in colonial Shanghai to give a public lecture about homosexuality. In the audience was a medical student. The sexologist, Magnus Hirschfeld, fell in love with the medical student, Li Shiu Tong. Li became Hirschfeld’s assistant on a lecture tour around the world.
Racism and the Making of Gay Rights shows how Hirschfeld laid the groundwork for modern gay rights, and how he did so by borrowing from a disturbing set of racist, imperial, and eugenic ideas.
Following Hirschfeld and Li in their travels through the American, Dutch, and British empires, from Manila to Tel Aviv to having tea with Langston Hughes in New York City, and then into exile in Hitler’s Europe, Laurie Marhoefer provides a vivid portrait of queer lives in the 1930s and of the turbulent, often-forgotten first chapter of gay rights.
Laurie Marhoefer is the Jon Bridgman Endowed Associate Professor in History at the University of Washington.
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Maps
Introduction: Manila Bay, Philippines, July 1931
1. “Einstein of Sex”: Magnus Hirschfeld at the End of the First Century of Gay Rights, North Atlantic Ocean, November 1930
2. The Empire of Queer Love: Berlin, Sometime between 1910 and 1914
3. Hirschfeld and Li Shiu Tong Meet: Feminism and Queer Attraction at the China United Apartments, International Settlement, Shanghai, May 1931
4. The Fight against Sexual Oppression is a Fight against Empire: Jawaharlal Nehru’s house, Allahabad, India, 1931
5. Are Homosexuals Like a Race? Analogy and the Making of the Sexual Minority
6. Magnus Hirschfeld’s Theory of the Races
7. Tea with Langston Hughes: Hirschfeld’s Anti-Blackness and Queer Black New York: Winter of 1930
8. Making Jews White: Tel Aviv, Palestine, Winter of 1932
9. Magnus Hirschfeld’s Queer Eugenics: Berlin, Germany, Manila, Philippines, Pasadena, California, United States, and Bondowoso, East Java, Indonesia
10. “And What about Women?”
11. The Exile: Athens to Nice, 1932 to 1935
12. Li Shiu Tong’s Queer Masculinities: The Hotel Baur au Lac, Zurich, Late 1930s
13. Li Shiu Tong’s Defiant Sexology: Vancouver, British Columbia, 1974 to 1993
Conclusion: Li Shiu Tong’s Berlin and Magnus Hirschfeld’s America
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.06.2022 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 13 b&w illustrations, 2 b&w maps |
| Verlagsort | Toronto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 440 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4875-2397-1 / 1487523971 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-2397-8 / 9781487523978 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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