Category: Biography

Biography Humanities Nonfiction Social Sciences

Charlotte Charlaque: Transfrau, Laienschauspielerin, “Königin der Brooklyn Heights Promenade”

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Raimund Wolfert […] hat eine kurze, aber ungeheuer interessante Biografie über eine Patientin und Mitarbeiterin an [Magnus Hirschfelds Institut für Sexualwissenschaft] geschrieben. […] Das Buch basiert auf gründlichen und umfangreichen Archivrecherchen und beeindruckt in hohem Maß – vielleicht gerade deshalb, weil es mit so großer Deutlichkeit zeigt, dass Identitätsfragen, die wir als sehr zeittypisch erleben,…

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Trans-feminist punk in the United States: Collective action, activism, and a libidinal economy of noise

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This chapter explores the tripartite relationship between transgender identities, political activism, and sonic practice. In particular, this chapter employs theorizations of noise to explore a rupture in the prevalent binarisms of sound and gender in the American punk scene and its aesthetics. Drawing upon theoretical frameworks such as Herbert Marcuse’s one-dimensional society and Jean-François Lyotard’s…

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An Ethics of Attentiveness: Photographic Portraits and Deviant Dwelling in German Queer and Trans Archives

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Photographic portraits of queer subjects from the early 20th century—shaped by early medical-scientific and legal practices—have often been identified with hegemonic ways of seeing, even when they re restaged in the present. In this article we argue that bringing an ethics of attentiveness to the analysis of such photographs reveals not only how embodied subjectivities…

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Self: A Study in Ethics and Endocrinology

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SELF: A Study in Ethics and Endocrinology considers the psycho-physical mechanisms and reactions in human nature and destiny. This book is composed of seven chapters and begins with a description of the complexity of human body and mind, specifically their physical basis and nature of functioning. These topics are followed by a presentation on the…

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Thinking Again

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Following the publication In My Mind’s Eye, her acclaimed first volume of diaries, a Radio 4 Book of the Week in 2018, Jan Morris continued to write her daily musings. From her home in the North West of Wales, the author of classics such as Venice and Trieste cast her eye over modern life in…

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Magnus Hirschfeld and the Origins of the Gay Liberation Movement

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Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) was one of the first great pioneers of the gay liberation movement. Revered by such gay icons as Christopher Isherwood and Harry Hay, founder of the Mattachine Society, Hirschfeld’s legacy resonates throughout the twentieth-century and around the world. Guided by his motto “Through Science Toward Justice,” Hirschfeld helped found the Scientific Humanitarian…

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Becoming a Visible Man

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At least two generations of transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people have emerged since Becoming a Visible Man was first published in 2004, but the book remains a beloved resource for trans people and their allies. Since the first edition’s publication, author Jamison Green’s writings and advocacy among business and governmental organizations around the world have…