The Intermediaries A Weimar Story

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The Intermediaries A Weimar Story

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Author : Brandy Schillace
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2025-05-13

The Intermediaries A Weimar Story written by Brandy Schillace and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-05-13 with History categories.

The fascinating history of a daring team of sexologists who built the first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich. Set in interwar Germany, The Intermediaries tells the forgotten story of the Institute for Sexual Science, the world’s first center for homosexual and transgender rights. Headed by a gay Jewish man, Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, the institute aided in the first gender-affirming surgeries and hormone treatments, acting as a rebellious base of operations in the face of rising prejudice, nationalism, and Nazi propaganda. An expert in medical history, Brandy Schillace tells the story of the Institute through the eyes of Dora Richter, an Institute patient whom we follow in her quest to transition and live as a woman. While the colorful but ultimately tragic arc of Weimar Berlin is well documented, The Intermediaries is the first book to assert the inseparable, interdependent relationship of sex science to both the queer rights movement and the permissive Weimar culture, tracking how political factions perverted that same science to suit their own ends. This riveting book brings together forgotten scientific and surgical discoveries (including previously untranslated archival material from Berlin) with the politics and social history that galvanized the first stirrings of the trans rights movement. Through its unforgettable characters and immersive, urgent storytelling, The Intermediaries charts the relationships between nascent sexual science, queer civil rights, and the fight against fascism. It tells riveting stories of LGBTQ pioneers—a surprising, long-suppressed history—and offers a cautionary tale in the face of today’s oppressive anti-trans legislation.

Mr Humble And Dr Butcher

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Author : Brandy Schillace
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2022-03-08

Mr Humble And Dr Butcher written by Brandy Schillace and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

The “delightfully macabre” (The New York Times) true tale of a brilliant and eccentric surgeon…and his quest to transplant the human soul. In the early days of the Cold War, a spirit of desperate scientific rivalry birthed a different kind of space race: not the race to outer space that we all know, but a race to master the inner space of the human body. While surgeons on either side of the Iron Curtain competed to become the first to transplant organs like the kidney and heart, a young American neurosurgeon had an even more ambitious thought: Why not transplant the brain? Dr. Robert White was a friend to two popes and a founder of the Vatican’s Commission on Bioethics. He developed lifesaving neurosurgical techniques still used in hospitals today and was nominated for the Nobel Prize. But like Dr. Jekyll before him, Dr. White had another identity. In his lab, he was waging a battle against the limits of science and against mortality itself—working to perfect a surgery that would allow the soul to live on after the human body had died. This “fascinating” (The Wall Street Journal), “provocative” (The Washington Post) tale follows his decades-long quest into tangled matters of science, Cold War politics, and faith, revealing the complex (and often murky) ethics of experimentation and remarkable innovations that today save patients from certain death. It’s a “masterful” (Science) look at our greatest fears and our greatest hopes—and the long, strange journey from science fiction to science fact.

Queer Urbanisms In Wilhelmine And Weimar Germany

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Author : Mathias Foit
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-12-28

Queer Urbanisms In Wilhelmine And Weimar Germany written by Mathias Foit and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-28 with History categories.

This book explores the queer history of the easternmost provinces of the German Reich—regions that used to be German, but which now mostly belong to Poland—in the first third of the twentieth century, a period roughly corresponding to the duration of Germany's first queer movement (1897-1933). While the amount of queer historical studies examining entire towns and cities in the German Reich has grown to an impressive size since the 1990s, most of that research concerns, firstly, the usual, large metropoles such as Berlin, Hamburg or Cologne, and, secondly, municipalities located in Germany 'proper'; that is, within its modern borders, not those of the German state in the first half of the twentieth century. Smaller cities (not to mention rural areas) in particular have received very little scholarly attention. This book is therefore one of the first to examine queer history—that of spaces, culture, sociability and political groups specifically—from this geographical perspective.

Violent Intermediaries

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Author : Michelle R. Moyd
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-01

Violent Intermediaries written by Michelle R. Moyd and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-01 with History categories.

The askari, African soldiers recruited in the 1890s to fill the ranks of the German East African colonial army, occupy a unique space at the intersection of East African history, German colonial history, and military history. Lauded by Germans for their loyalty during the East Africa campaign of World War I, but reviled by Tanzanians for the violence they committed during the making of the colonial state between 1890 and 1918, the askari have been poorly understood as historical agents. Violent Intermediaries situates them in their everyday household, community, military, and constabulary roles, as men who helped make colonialism in German East Africa. By linking microhistories with wider nineteenth-century African historical processes, Michelle Moyd shows how as soldiers and colonial intermediaries, the askari built the colonial state while simultaneously carving out paths to respectability, becoming men of influence within their local contexts. Through its focus on the making of empire from the ground up, Violent Intermediaries offers a fresh perspective on African colonial troops as state-making agents and critiques the mythologies surrounding the askari by focusing on the nature of colonial violence.

Yiddish Writers In Weimar Berlin

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Author : Marc Caplan
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2021-01-05

Yiddish Writers In Weimar Berlin written by Marc Caplan and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-05 with Literary Criticism categories.

In Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin, Marc Caplan explores the reciprocal encounter between Eastern European Jews and German culture in the days following World War I. By concentrating primarily on a small group of avant-garde Yiddish writers—Dovid Bergelson, Der Nister, and Moyshe Kulbak—working in Berlin during the Weimar Republic, Caplan examines how these writers became central to modernist aesthetics. By concentrating on the character of Yiddish literature produced in Weimar Germany, Caplan offers a new method of seeing how artistic creation is constructed and a new understanding of the political resonances that result from it. Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin reveals how Yiddish literature participated in the culture of Weimar-era modernism, how active Yiddish writers were in the literary scene, and how German-speaking Jews read descriptions of Yiddish-speaking Jews to uncover the emotional complexity of what they managed to create even in the midst of their confusion and ambivalence in Germany. Caplan's masterful narrative affords new insights into literary form, Jewish culture, and the philosophical and psychological motivations for aesthetic modernism.

War Weimar And Literature

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Author : Guy Stern
language : en
Publisher: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press
Release Date : 1971

War Weimar And Literature written by Guy Stern and has been published by University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Literary Criticism categories.

A History Of English Romanticism In The Eighteenth Century

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Author : Henry Augustin Beers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898

A History Of English Romanticism In The Eighteenth Century written by Henry Augustin Beers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with English literature categories.

Orwell In Tribune

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Author : George Orwell
language : en
Publisher: Methuen Publishing
Release Date : 2006

Orwell In Tribune written by George Orwell and has been published by Methuen Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Great Britain categories.

George Orwell has long been one of the most popular authors in the English language. Essentially a political writer at Tribune, his work was wide ranging & eclectic & his lucid style was highly effective. This collection provides an invaluable insight into his writings.

Transnational Nazism

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Author : Ricky W. Law
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-23

Transnational Nazism written by Ricky W. Law and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-23 with History categories.

The first English-language study of German-Japanese interwar relations to employ sources in both languages.

Episodes In The Life Of The Early Modern Learned Book

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Author : Ian Maclean
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-10-26

Episodes In The Life Of The Early Modern Learned Book written by Ian Maclean and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-26 with History categories.

In Episodes in the Life of the Early Modern Learned Book, Ian Maclean investigates intellectual life through the prism of the history of publishing, academic institutions, journals, and the German book fairs whose evolution is mapped over the long seventeenth century. After a study of the activities of Italian book merchants up to 1621, the passage into print, both locally and internationally, of English and Italian medicine and ‘new’ science comes under scrutiny. The fate of humanist publishing is next illustrated in the figure of the Dutch merchant Andreas Frisius (1630–1675). The work ends with an analysis of the two monuments of the last phase of legal humanism: the Thesauruses of Otto (1725–44) and Gerard Meerman (1751–80).