Life among the Ruins: Cityscape and Sexuality in Cold War Berlin

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Palgrave Macmillan UK, Nov 18, 2011 - History - 317 pages
As home to 1920s excess and Hitler's Final Solution, Berlin's physical and symbolic landscape was an important staging ground for the highs and lows of modernity. In Cold War Berlin, social and political boundaries were porous, and the rubble gave refuge to a re-emerging gay and lesbian scene, youth gangs, prostitutes, hoods, and hustlers.

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Life among the Ruins: Cityscape and Sexuality in Cold War Berlin
J. Evans
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About the author (2011)

JENNIFER V. EVANS is Associate Professor of History at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She teaches a variety of courses in 20th century German history, while her primary area of research is the history of sexuality. She has written about the regulation of same-sex sexuality in Cold War Germany, pink triangle victims during and after the Holocaust, and queer erotic photography as a form of self-narration.

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TitleLife among the Ruins: Cityscape and Sexuality in Cold War Berlin
Genders and Sexualities in History
AuthorJ. Evans
Editionillustrated
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK, 2011
ISBN0230202012, 9780230202016
Length317 pages
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History / Europe / General
History / General
History / Modern / General
History / Social History
Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family
  
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