Heike Bauer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1122219 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heike Bauer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heike |
| FAMILY NAME | Bauer |
| SIGNATURE | BAUER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4067-9989 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Use and Abuse of Queer History
What is the use of queer history? In present-day Hungary, like in other countries with right-wing governments, LGBTQI lives have become a target for attack, often by being figured as alien to national traditions and history. In Hungary, measures such as a new family policy that figures the heteroreproductive family as key to national survival, as well as the more recent ban on discussions of transgender and homosexuality in schools, are articulat…
In the Canine Archives of Sex: Radclyffe Hall, Una Troubridge and their Dogs
How does attention to dogs open up understanding of the queer, and more specifically, the Sapphic, past? This article examines the forgotten enmeshments of lesbian and pedigree dog subcultures in 1920s England. It takes as its case study one of the best‐known couples of Sapphic modernity, Radclyffe Hall and Una Troubridge, and their dachshunds, Wotan and Thorgils. Bringing into dialogue scholarship on queer, trans and animal history, it traces th…
Curating Visual Archives of Sex
In this roundtable, four curators of exhibitions showcasing sexual archives and histories-with a particular focus on queer and trans experiences-were asked to reflect on their experiences working as scholars and artists across a range of museum and gallery formats. The exhibitions referred to below were Bring Your Own Body: Transgender between Archives and Aesthetics, curated by Jeanne Vaccaro (discussant) with Stamatina Gregory at The Cooper Uni…
Visual Histories of Sex
Increased access to visual archives and the proliferation of digitized images related to sexuality have led a growing number of scholars in recent years to place images and visual practices at the center of critical historical inquiries of sexual desire, subjectivity, and embodiment. At the same time, new critical histories of sexual science serve both to expand the temporal and geographical frames for investigating the historical relationships o…
Ralph M. Leck, Vita Sexualis: Karl Ulrichs and the Origins of Sexual Science
The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture
The book examines little known and forgotten writings by Magnus Hirschfeld, the influential sexologist who is best known today for his homosexual activism, transgender work and founding of the world's first Institute of Sexual Science in 1919. Arguing that negative experiences, as much as affirmative subculture formation, shaped a collective sense of modern same-sex identity, it reveals the gendered and racialized limits of the emerging homosexua…
Introduction: Transnational Lesbian Cultures
This special issue examines the transnational shape and shaping of lesbian lives and cultures in and across China, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It uses the expression "transnational lesbian cultures" to suggest that despite sometimes radically different sociopolitical and cultural contexts, the lived experiences of same-sex desire and their emotional attachments create particular affinities between women who love women, affin…
Vital Lines Drawn From Books: Difficult Feelings in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and Are You My Mother
This article examines the representation of a transnational archive of queer books in Alison Bechdel's graphic memoirs Fun Home and Are You My Mother? for the insights it provides into the role of reading in making sense of the often difficult "felt experiences" of lesbian life. In both memoirs, books serve an important narrative function in the portrayal of Alison's lesbian identification and its complex emotional entanglements with the lives of…
Radclyffe Hall: A life in the writingRichard Dellamora
Queer 1950s: Rethinking Sexuality in the Postwar Years
Leading sexuality scholars explore queer lives and cultures in the first full post-war decade through an array of sources and a range of perspectives. Drawing out the particularities of queer cultures
Race’, normativity and the history of sexuality: Magnus Hirschfeld's racism and the early-twentieth-century sexology
This article explores intersections between ‘race’ and sexuality in the work of Magnus Hirschfeld and its racialised reception. Hirschfeld, a Jewish German homosexual physician and activist, was instrumental in establishing sexology in Germany during the first three decades of the twentieth century, until his lifework was destroyed by the Nazi regime. He is best known today for his theorisations of sexuality. However, following the events of 1933…
"Not a translation but a mutilation": The Limits of Translation and the Discipline of Sexology
This article uses the discipline of sexology as a means to test the limits of translation. Specifically, I examine the translation and dissemination in English of works by three German sexologists, Ulrichs, Krafft-Ebing and Hirschfeld, focusing on what Benjamin termed issues of the "translatability" of a text. My analysis reveals that the binary model of "translatability" versus "un-translatability" does not suffice to describe the dissemination …
Current status of reproductive behaviour in Africa
The current annual population growth rate of 3.2% in Africa will double the population by the year 2025. The majority of this population is below 15 years of age, and Africa concurrently also has the highest incidence of infertility in the world. Sexual behaviour, which has been poorly studied in Africa, has a direct impact on reproductive health [including fertility, infertility and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)]. The multiple cultures an…
Race’, normativity and the history of sexuality: Magnus Hirschfeld's racism and the early-twentieth-century sexology
This article explores intersections between ‘race’ and sexuality in the work of Magnus Hirschfeld and its racialised reception. Hirschfeld, a Jewish German homosexual physician and activist, was instrumental in establishing sexology in Germany during the first three decades of the twentieth century, until his lifework was destroyed by the Nazi regime. He is best known today for his theorisations of sexuality. However, following the events of 1933…
In the Canine Archives of Sex: Radclyffe Hall, Una Troubridge and their Dogs
How does attention to dogs open up understanding of the queer, and more specifically, the Sapphic, past? This article examines the forgotten enmeshments of lesbian and pedigree dog subcultures in 1920s England. It takes as its case study one of the best‐known couples of Sapphic modernity, Radclyffe Hall and Una Troubridge, and their dachshunds, Wotan and Thorgils. Bringing into dialogue scholarship on queer, trans and animal history, it traces th…
Vital Lines Drawn From Books: Difficult Feelings in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and Are You My Mother
This article examines the representation of a transnational archive of queer books in Alison Bechdel's graphic memoirs Fun Home and Are You My Mother? for the insights it provides into the role of reading in making sense of the often difficult "felt experiences" of lesbian life. In both memoirs, books serve an important narrative function in the portrayal of Alison's lesbian identification and its complex emotional entanglements with the lives of…
Visual Histories of Sex
Increased access to visual archives and the proliferation of digitized images related to sexuality have led a growing number of scholars in recent years to place images and visual practices at the center of critical historical inquiries of sexual desire, subjectivity, and embodiment. At the same time, new critical histories of sexual science serve both to expand the temporal and geographical frames for investigating the historical relationships o…
Current status of reproductive behaviour in Africa
The current annual population growth rate of 3.2% in Africa will double the population by the year 2025. The majority of this population is below 15 years of age, and Africa concurrently also has the highest incidence of infertility in the world. Sexual behaviour, which has been poorly studied in Africa, has a direct impact on reproductive health [including fertility, infertility and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)]. The multiple cultures an…
"Not a translation but a mutilation": The Limits of Translation and the Discipline of Sexology
This article uses the discipline of sexology as a means to test the limits of translation. Specifically, I examine the translation and dissemination in English of works by three German sexologists, Ulrichs, Krafft-Ebing and Hirschfeld, focusing on what Benjamin termed issues of the "translatability" of a text. My analysis reveals that the binary model of "translatability" versus "un-translatability" does not suffice to describe the dissemination …
Race’, normativity and the history of sexuality: Magnus Hirschfeld's racism and the early-twentieth-century sexology
This article explores intersections between ‘race’ and sexuality in the work of Magnus Hirschfeld and its racialised reception. Hirschfeld, a Jewish German homosexual physician and activist, was instrumental in establishing sexology in Germany during the first three decades of the twentieth century, until his lifework was destroyed by the Nazi regime. He is best known today for his theorisations of sexuality. However, following the events of 1933…
Queer 1950s: Rethinking Sexuality in the Postwar Years
Leading sexuality scholars explore queer lives and cultures in the first full post-war decade through an array of sources and a range of perspectives. Drawing out the particularities of queer cultures
Introduction: Transnational Lesbian Cultures
This special issue examines the transnational shape and shaping of lesbian lives and cultures in and across China, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It uses the expression "transnational lesbian cultures" to suggest that despite sometimes radically different sociopolitical and cultural contexts, the lived experiences of same-sex desire and their emotional attachments create particular affinities between women who love women, affin…
Vital Lines Drawn From Books: Difficult Feelings in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and Are You My Mother
This article examines the representation of a transnational archive of queer books in Alison Bechdel's graphic memoirs Fun Home and Are You My Mother? for the insights it provides into the role of reading in making sense of the often difficult "felt experiences" of lesbian life. In both memoirs, books serve an important narrative function in the portrayal of Alison's lesbian identification and its complex emotional entanglements with the lives of…
Radclyffe Hall: A life in the writingRichard Dellamora
The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture
The book examines little known and forgotten writings by Magnus Hirschfeld, the influential sexologist who is best known today for his homosexual activism, transgender work and founding of the world's first Institute of Sexual Science in 1919. Arguing that negative experiences, as much as affirmative subculture formation, shaped a collective sense of modern same-sex identity, it reveals the gendered and racialized limits of the emerging homosexua…
Ralph M. Leck, Vita Sexualis: Karl Ulrichs and the Origins of Sexual Science
In the Canine Archives of Sex: Radclyffe Hall, Una Troubridge and their Dogs
How does attention to dogs open up understanding of the queer, and more specifically, the Sapphic, past? This article examines the forgotten enmeshments of lesbian and pedigree dog subcultures in 1920s England. It takes as its case study one of the best‐known couples of Sapphic modernity, Radclyffe Hall and Una Troubridge, and their dachshunds, Wotan and Thorgils. Bringing into dialogue scholarship on queer, trans and animal history, it traces th…
Curating Visual Archives of Sex
In this roundtable, four curators of exhibitions showcasing sexual archives and histories-with a particular focus on queer and trans experiences-were asked to reflect on their experiences working as scholars and artists across a range of museum and gallery formats. The exhibitions referred to below were Bring Your Own Body: Transgender between Archives and Aesthetics, curated by Jeanne Vaccaro (discussant) with Stamatina Gregory at The Cooper Uni…
Visual Histories of Sex
Increased access to visual archives and the proliferation of digitized images related to sexuality have led a growing number of scholars in recent years to place images and visual practices at the center of critical historical inquiries of sexual desire, subjectivity, and embodiment. At the same time, new critical histories of sexual science serve both to expand the temporal and geographical frames for investigating the historical relationships o…
The Use and Abuse of Queer History
What is the use of queer history? In present-day Hungary, like in other countries with right-wing governments, LGBTQI lives have become a target for attack, often by being figured as alien to national traditions and history. In Hungary, measures such as a new family policy that figures the heteroreproductive family as key to national survival, as well as the more recent ban on discussions of transgender and homosexuality in schools, are articulat…
Sociology (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Human sexuality (8 works) · Queer (8 works) · Art (6 works) · European history and politics (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (5 works)