Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface. Peripheral Desires ix
4. Introduction. 1869—Urnings, Homosexuals, and Inverts 1
5. Chapter 1. Swiss Eros: Hössli and Zschokke, Legacies and Contexts 27
6. Chapter 2. The Greek Model and Its Masculinist Appropriation 53
7. Chapter 3. Jews and Homosexuals 83
8. Chapter 4. “Homosexuality” and the Politics of the Nation in Austria, Hungary, and Austria-Hungary 111
9. Chapter 5. Colonialism and Sexuality: German Perspectives on Samoa 134
10. Chapter 6. Swiss Universities: Emancipated Women and the Third Sex 162
11. Chapter 7. Thomas Mann’s Erotic Irony: The Dialectics of Sexuality in Venice 185
12. Chapter 8. Pederasty in Palestine: Sexuality and Nationality in Arnold Zweig’s De Vriendt kehrt heim 211
13. Conclusion. American Legacies of the German Discovery of Sex 230
14. Notes 251
15. Bibliography 283
16. Acknowledgments 307