{"product_id":"uniform-fantasies-jeffrey-schneider-9781487549619","title":"Uniform Fantasies: Soldiers, Sex, and Queer Emancipation in Imperial Germany","description":"\u003cp\u003eStarting in the nineteenth century in Germany, colourful military uniforms became a locus for various queer male fantasies, fostering an underground sexual economy of male prostitution as well as a political project to exploit the army's prestige for queer emancipation. In the first decade of the twentieth century, however, a series of scandals derailed this emancipatory project. Simultaneously, public debates began to invoke homosexuality, sadism, transvestism, and other sexological concepts to criticize military policies and practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn pursuing the threads with which queer authors and activists stitched their fantasies about uniforms, Jeffrey Schneider offers fresh perspectives on key debates over military secrecy, disciplinary abuses in the army, and German militarism. Drawing on a vast trove of materials ranging from sexological case studies, trial transcripts, and parliamentary debates to queer activist tracts, autobiographies, and literary texts, \u003ci\u003eUniform Fantasies\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers a particularly modern set of concerns about such topics as outing closeted homosexuals, the presence of gay men in the military, and whether men in uniform are more masculine or more insecure about their sexual identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeffrey Schneider\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 148754961X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487549619\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/07\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 5.98w x 0.94d","brand":"Jeffrey Schneider","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44181204173055,"sku":"9781487549619","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_aa4b4066-9898-41ec-b5cd-89bd87c04ad4.jpg?v=1690259138","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/uniform-fantasies-jeffrey-schneider-9781487549619","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}