{"product_id":"urning-queer-identity-in-the-german-nineteenth-century-hardback-9781487555603","title":"Urning; Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century (Hardback) 9781487555603","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eUrning\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eQueer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDouglas Pretsell (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487555603\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 February 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e284 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.5 x 2.7 cm, 0.5 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\"Pretsell\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003cem\u003eUrning \u003c\/em\u003eis a much-needed addition to the existing scholarship on the beginnings of modern queer history. Thoroughly researched and engaging with that literature with admirable prowess and argumentative confidence, it challenges Foucauldian paradigms and traditional (bourgeois, metronormative) understandings of queer history.\" - Mathias Foit, Fachhochschule des Mittelstands (\u003cem\u003eJournal of Homosexuality\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 1864, the German jurist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs coined the term \"urning\" as a word for same-sex attracted men. Over the next few years, first anonymously and then publicly, he campaigned against the public persecution of these men. In response, some of his readers took on the urning terminology for themselves and engaged with Ulrichs to negotiate the finer points of their new identities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eUrning\u003c\/em\u003e, Douglas Pretsell writes of same-sex attracted men in German-speaking Europe who used the neologism \"urning\" as a personal identity in the late nineteenth century. This was in the period before other terms such as \"homosexual\" gained currency. Drawing on letters, memoirs, and psychiatric case studies, the book uses first-hand autobiographical accounts to map out the contours of urning society. \u003cem\u003eUrning\u003c\/em\u003e further explores individual accounts of some urnings who attempted their own forms of activism to transform the world around them , even though they had no formal organization. As the century drew to a close, the efforts of Ulrichs and his urning followers paved the way for the launch of the world\u0026amp;#x2019;s first  homosexual rights organization. \u003cem\u003eUrning \u003c\/em\u003eargues that the men who called themselves urnings were self-identified, self-constructed agents of their own destinies. \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\u003eNotes on Terminology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Age of the Urning Begins\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart One: 1862−1871 \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The First Urning: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, 1825–1895\u003cbr\u003e2. From Page to Personhood: The Transmission of Urningtum, 1864–1868\u003cbr\u003e3. Two Trials: Sensation, Horror, and the Urning in the Public Sphere, 1867–1870\u003cbr\u003e4. Sins of the City: Karl Maria Kertbeny and the Social Cross-Dressers, 1865–1880\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart Two: 1872–1897 \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. The Matchmaker of Switzerland: Jakob Rudolf Forster\u0026amp;#x2019;s Grassroots Activism in Germanic Switzerland, 1878–1897\u003cbr\u003e6. Queering Psychiatry: Autobiographical Lobbying of Richard von Krafft-Ebing, 1864–1901\u003cbr\u003e7. Belling the Cat: Adolf Glaser\u0026amp;#x2019;s Discreet Police-Liaison in Berlin, 1878–1897\u003cbr\u003e8. The Comradely Uranian: John Addington Symonds and the English Translation of the Urning, 1889–1893\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: The End of the Urning Age\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTimeline of Events\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\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":52685566411032,"sku":"9781487555603","price":50.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/urning-queer-identity-in-the-german-nineteenth-century-hardback-9781487555603","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}