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draig_dyke's review
challenging
informative
medium-paced
4.0
This essay touches upon many aspects of queer art and culture. It’s about our history, the history of Sexualwissenschaften, documented, undocumented, destroyed. It can be viewed as an introduction as it includes many works to be researched further or consumed. It left me curious.
The structure and syntax can make the reading difficult. Personally, I think it’s manageable.
The cover is quite unfortunate. I wasn’t able to read the book on German public transport. The colours white, red and black along with the word ‘Nazi’ in the title make it seem like Nazi-literature (as in propaganda), which resulted in angry glares (justified). Seldomly felt so uncomfortable due to cover design.
erica_cm's review against another edition
1.0
DNF it ages ago, couldn’t be bothered to finish it. The writing was very academic and boring.
hareii's review against another edition
4.0
Gets a bit lost at times with its own writing style - whilst not at all inaccessible, Mayer employs a method of writing that mixes history and present, biographical accounts and fictional pondering, that at times led me to need to reread sections purely to understand what was intended.
Perhaps that was, however, the intention! But I think it did lose itself, still, around the novel’s midpoint before taking hold of its own style again by the last third.
Most importantly, this text feels like a brilliant jumping off point into a vast array of queer, race, and feminist thinking. I feel that this work, alongside those cited in the bibliography (and, okay, that is the BEST BIBLIOGRAPHY EVER and I shall fight to be able to write one like it as well, what an obviously better way to list references WHY IS THIS NOT THE STANDARD?!) will be very useful for my future academic study!
Perhaps that was, however, the intention! But I think it did lose itself, still, around the novel’s midpoint before taking hold of its own style again by the last third.
Most importantly, this text feels like a brilliant jumping off point into a vast array of queer, race, and feminist thinking. I feel that this work, alongside those cited in the bibliography (and, okay, that is the BEST BIBLIOGRAPHY EVER and I shall fight to be able to write one like it as well, what an obviously better way to list references WHY IS THIS NOT THE STANDARD?!) will be very useful for my future academic study!
palgolak's review
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0