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The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, the Visionary of Weimar Berlin
Daniel Brook
4.44 AVERAGE
21 reviews for:
The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, the Visionary of Weimar Berlin
Daniel Brook
4.44 AVERAGE
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Excellent book. I usually find historical nonfiction boring, but this book managed to capture my interest throughout the novel. Approachable, informative, and wryly engaging. A must read if anyone wants to know more about queer history, WW11, or Berlin.
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Representation: Magnus Hirschfeld is Jewish and gay, all about him and his interactions with queer people around the world.
I really enjoyed learning more about Magnus and what he was all about. I was already familiar with him and his sex institute in Weimar Berlin, but not much beyond that. This book goes in depth about him, his upbringing, what he was really like, and what drove him to do all this research into queer people and "deviant" lifestyles, including BDSM, kinks, and the such. It's a great look into what queer life was like in that era of Germany, but also snippets of queer life around the world. He was also made aware of marginalizations apart from his own as a Jew and gay man through his travels, and I would say he was ahead of his time in many ways. But I also know that he wasn't perfect, far from it. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn a bit about the history of the queer community in the 1920s-1930s.
I really enjoyed learning more about Magnus and what he was all about. I was already familiar with him and his sex institute in Weimar Berlin, but not much beyond that. This book goes in depth about him, his upbringing, what he was really like, and what drove him to do all this research into queer people and "deviant" lifestyles, including BDSM, kinks, and the such. It's a great look into what queer life was like in that era of Germany, but also snippets of queer life around the world. He was also made aware of marginalizations apart from his own as a Jew and gay man through his travels, and I would say he was ahead of his time in many ways. But I also know that he wasn't perfect, far from it. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn a bit about the history of the queer community in the 1920s-1930s.
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This book is amazing. Brook really makes clear jow advanced Magnus was in his thinking. Especially how he used his research to inform his theories and did make a theory then try to substantiate it. That's probably why he was so amazing and so dangerous to the German government of the 1930s.
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really good for a layperson just getting into the history! of course, wouldn't hold up to like an academic book, but it does a really good job of explaining things to a lay audience who maybe doesn’t have a lot of knowledge while also explaining just how important it is to consider Hirschfeld’s intersecting identities when it comes to the harassment and all that he dealt with
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