THE TIME OF MASKING. THE POSITION OF LESBIANS IN THE NATIONAL SOCIALISM (Czas maskowania. O sytuacji lesbijek w narodowym socjalizmie)

• Authors: Schoppman Claudia
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The lot of homosexual females in the Third Reich is a forgotten chapter of the history. Tabooisation and stigmatisation of the phenomenon in question does not only affect the very fact that lesbians did exist in the German society in 1930s/1940s, as it also spans onto the Nazis' and national-socialist ideology's attitude to homosexual minorities. The authoress' text poses the primary questions concerning the phenomenon whilst also attempting at responding to them and possibly minutely clarify the issues being described. She is primarily interested in the changes that took place in the lives of homosexual persons, especially women, in the Germany of the thirties; their legal situation and forms of persecution - as consequences of the Nazi homophobic ideology. Hence, the text aims at refuting the myths regarding the phenomenon under discussion whilst remarking that studies of this sort are by all means necessary and much demanded, despite of scarce sources existing.

Keywords

EN

GENDER STUDIES; GERMAN SOCIETY (1930S/1940S).; NAZI HOMOPHOBIC IDEOLOGY; QUEER THEORY

Discipline

• ANTHROPOLOGY: ANTHROPOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
• Year: 2008
• Issue: 5(113)
• Pages: 163-174
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Schoppman Claudia

• Claudia Schoppman, no address given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA056012