Lost Intimacies: Rethinking Homosexuality under National Socialism uses queer theory as a hermeneutic tool with which to read against the grain of heterotextual narratives of the Holocaust and as a way of locating alternative pathways of meaning in dominant Holocaust research. Specifically addressing the racialization of sexuality, the book asks how the politics of sexuality can be more explicitly and systematically theorized, along with state-sanctioned homophobia under Nazism, with a clear...
Introduction 1\ Ch. 1 Holocaust Studies Meets Queer Studies: A Contested Alliance? 15\ Ch. 2 The Racialization of Sexuality: Rethinking Same-Sex Desire within Nazi Juridical Discourse 29\ Ch. 3 The Politics of Gender Difference: Lesbian Existence under the Third Reich 45\ Ch. 4 Homosexuality and Fascism: A (Re)Analysis 65\ Ch. 5 Discursive Traces of Nazi Homophobia in Contemporary Culture 85\ Ch. 6 Queer Sexuality, Holocaust Studies, and the Challenge of Democratic Futurity 109\ Notes 121\ References 139\ Index 147