3. Modern Masculinity as Battleground of Identity Politics. Otto Weininger’s Sex and Character (1903)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Introduction 9
4. 1. “All Jews are womanly, but no women are Jews.”1 The Femininity Game of Deception: Femme fatale Orientale, and belle Juive 21
5. 2. Queering Judaism and Masculinist Inventions: German Homonationalism around 1900 55
6. 3. Modern Masculinity as Battleground of Identity Politics. Otto Weininger’s Sex and Character (1903) 79
7. 4. Against Effeminization. Sigmund Freud’s Theory of Culture between Male Band Discourse and Antisemitism 97
8. 5. The “Jewess Question”. The Figure of the “Beautiful Jewess” between (Self-)Orientalism and Antisemitism 137
9. 6. Seeing, Hearing and Narrating Salome. Modernist Sensual Aesthetics and the Role of Narrative Blanks 159
10. 7. “Dancing on the Threshold”. Maud Allan and the English Salome Scandal 183
11. 8. “Where there is dance, there is the devil”. Femininity and Violence: Salome as a Maenad 213
12. Acknowledgments and Print Proofs 231
13. Notes on the Author 233