{"product_id":"racism-and-the-making-of-gay-rights-a-sexologist-his-student-and-the-empire-of-queer-love-paperback-softback-9781487523978","title":"Racism and the Making of Gay Rights; A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love (Paperback \/ softback) 9781487523978","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRacism and the Making of Gay Rights\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLaurie Marhoefer (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487523978\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 4 May 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e334 pages, 13 b\u0026amp;w illustrations, 2 b\u0026amp;w maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.44 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Marhoefer's achievement in \u003cem\u003eRacism and the Making of Gay Rights\u003c\/em\u003e is not just to place Li back into the lecture halls and the steamships of their shared journey, but also to brilliantly reframe Hirschfeld as a man of his era, a man who developed and popularized the concept of \u0026amp;#x2018;homosexuality\u0026amp;#x2019; in a world that was shaped by the fact of empire … This book should be required reading for anybody with a professional, political, or personal interest in the \u0026amp;#x2018;homosexual.\u0026amp;#x2019;\" - Lauren Stokes, Northwestern University (\u003cem\u003eJournal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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\u0026amp;#x2019;s assistant on a lecture tour around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRacism and the Making of Gay Rights\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFollowing 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\u0026amp;#x2019;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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eMaps\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Manila Bay, Philippines, July 1931\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. \"Einstein of Sex\": Magnus Hirschfeld at the End of the First Century of Gay Rights, North Atlantic Ocean, November 1930 \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Empire of Queer Love: Berlin, Sometime between 1910 and 1914 \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Hirschfeld and Li Shiu Tong Meet: Feminism and Queer Attraction at the China United Apartments, International Settlement, Shanghai, May 1931\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. The Fight against Sexual Oppression is a Fight against Empire: Jawaharlal Nehru\u0026amp;#x2019;s house, Allahabad, India, 1931 \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Are Homosexuals Like a Race? Analogy and the Making of the Sexual Minority\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Magnus Hirschfeld\u0026amp;#x2019;s Theory of the Races\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Tea with Langston Hughes: Hirschfeld\u0026amp;#x2019;s Anti-Blackness and Queer Black New York: Winter of 1930\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Making Jews White: Tel Aviv, Palestine, Winter of 1932\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Magnus Hirschfeld\u0026amp;#x2019;s Queer Eugenics: Berlin, Germany, Manila, Philippines, Pasadena, California, United States, and Bondowoso, East Java, Indonesia\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. \"And What about Women?\" \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. The Exile: Athens to Nice, 1932 to 1935\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Li Shiu Tong\u0026amp;#x2019;s Queer Masculinities: The Hotel Baur au Lac, Zurich, Late 1930s\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Li Shiu Tong\u0026amp;#x2019;s Defiant Sexology: Vancouver, British Columbia, 1974 to 1993\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Li Shiu Tong\u0026amp;#x2019;s Berlin and Magnus Hirschfeld\u0026amp;#x2019;s America\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670799544600,"sku":"9781487523978","price":18.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/racism-and-the-making-of-gay-rights-a-sexologist-his-student-and-the-empire-of-queer-love-paperback-softback-9781487523978","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}