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An intimate history of the front = masculinity, sexuality, and German soldiers in the First World War /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	An intimate history of the front/ Jason Crouthamel.
Reminder of title:	masculinity, sexuality, and German soldiers in the First World War /
Author:	Crouthamel, Jason.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan : : 2014.,
Description:	248 p.
Notes:	Electronic book text.
Subject:	Gay military personnel - History - 20th century - Germany. -
Online resource:	Online journal 'available contents' page
ISBN:	1137376929 (electronic bk.) :

An intimate history of the front = masculinity, sexuality, and German soldiers in the First World War /
Crouthamel, Jason.

An intimate history of the frontmasculinity, sexuality, and German soldiers in the First World War /[electronic resource] :Jason Crouthamel. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan :2014. - 248 p.

Electronic book text.

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Ideal Man Goes to War 2. Masculinity in Crisis: Sexual Crime, Dislocation and Deprivation 3. 'Don't Think I'm Soft': The Masculine Image Presented to the Home Front in Soldiers' Letters 4. 'I Wish I Were a Girl!': Escaping the Masculine Ideal in Front Newspapers 5. 'We Need Real Men': The Impact of the Front Experience on Homosexual Front Soldiers 6. Coming Home: Postwar Sexual Chaos, Disillusionment, and Battles over Masculinity Conclusion Bibliography.

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This eye-opening study gives a nuanced, provocative account of how German soldiers in the Great War experienced and enacted masculinity. Drawing on an array of relevant narratives and media, it explores the ways that both heterosexual and homosexual soldiers expressed emotion, understood romantic ideals, and approached intimacy and sexuality.The epochal shifts that the First World War effected in political, economic, and intellectual history has long been an object of scholarly inquiry, but the war's impact on ideas of gender and sexuality have received far less attention. This eye-opening study gives a nuanced but provocative account of how German soldiers in the Great War experienced, articulated, and enacted masculinity. Drawing on an impressive array of relevant narratives and media - including front newspapers, family correspondence, diaries, and military court records - it explores the ways that both heterosexual and homosexual soldiers expressed emotion, understood romantic ideals, and approached intimacy and sexuality. As author Jason Crouthamel demonstrates, German soldiers both transgressed and reinforced gender roles, developing complex notions of masculinity that diverged from national ideals of self-sacrifice and emotional self-control. As a result of their often traumatic experiences on the front, these men experimented with emotions and behaviors otherwise considered deviant, redefining them as acceptable or even necessary for surviving modern war.

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Jason Crouthamel is an Associate Professor at Grand Valley State University, USA. He is also the author of The Great War and German Memory: Society, Politics and Psychological Trauma, 1914-1945.

ISBN: 1137376929 (electronic bk.) :£60.00Subjects--Topical Terms:

1009771
Gay military personnel
--History--Germany.--20th century

LC Class. No.: D524.7.G7 / C76 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 940.460943

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