Robert Deam Tobin
Biographic Data
| ID | 6090048 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Deam Tobin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert Deam |
| FAMILY NAME | Tobin |
| SIGNATURE | TOBIN R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clark University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Confessional
Bob Tobin originally wrote this essay in 2000 as the preface to his first book, Warm Brothers: Queer Theory and the Age of Goethe. At the time, however, only one of the reviewers of the manuscript approved of it, so he decided not to include it in the book. In the summer of 2022, when Bob was struggling with liver cancer, he remembered this essay and expressed his desire to have it published, but it was nowhere to be found in his home or office f…
Human Rights and German Intellectual History in Transnational Perspective
Human rights, recently, have been a controversial topic. A debate has unfolded that includes concerns about their political instrumentalization, appropriation, and narrowing, as well as fundamental critiques about their viability from leftist and right-wing perspectives. On the one hand human rights today are seen as central to domestic and international politics; on the other hand their legitimacy is questioned more than ever (see Benhabib 8–11)…
Katie Sutton, Sex Between Body and Mind
Katie Sutton, Sex Between Body and Mind: Psychoanalysis and Sexology in the German-speaking World, 1890s-1930s Sutton Katie, Sex Between Body and Mind: Psychoanalysis and Sexology in the German-speaking World, 1890s-1930s, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019. Pp. 347. $90. ISBN 978 0 472 13160 0. Robert Deam Tobin Robert Deam Tobin Clark University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google…
LGBTQ+ Rights after the Report on unalienable Rights
When Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called for and established a Commission on Unalienable Rights in 2019, alarm bells went off for many, especially in LGBTQ+ communities. In its May 20, 2020, submission to the commission, the nongovernmental organization Human Rights Watch indicated that it was particularly concerned that the outcome of the deliberations would “jeopardize the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.”1 Give…
Eurovision at 50
Eurovision, especially as it has developed since the 1990s after the fall of the Berlin Wall, offers a model of European citizenship that is particularly amenable to needs that are present in queer populations and communities. The sense of citizenship that Eurovision offers is of course distinct and different from the legal status of a citizen of a particular state that is a member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which runs the show. In…
Winckelmann – Homosexualität, schwule Kultur, Queer Theory
Bereits zu seinen Lebzeiten war W. für seine enthusiastische sinnliche Liebe zu jungen Männern bekannt. Seine Veranlagung wurde bemerkenswert offen besprochen, manchmal sogar positiv bewertet, und von Anfang an mit seiner kunsthistorischen Arbeit in Verbindung gebracht. Obwohl W. fast genau einhundert Jahre vor der Einführung des modernen Begriffs »Homosexualität« ermordet wurde, fand er bald Aufnahme in die Reihe berühmter Homosexueller. Noch he…
A Song for Europe
Eurovision, especially as it has developed since the 1990s after the fall of the Berlin Wall, offers a model of European citizenship that is particularly amenable to needs that are present in queer populations and communities. The sense of citizenship that Eurovision offers is of course distinct and different from the legal status of a citizen of a particular state that is a member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which runs the show. In…
Peripheral Desires
As Germany—and German-speaking Europe—became a fertile ground for homosexual subcultures in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, what factors helped construct the sexuality that emerged? Peripheral Desires examines how and why the political, scientific and literary culture of the region produced the modern vocabulary of sexuality.
A Song for Europe
Eurovision, especially as it has developed since the 1990s after the fall of the Berlin Wall, offers a model of European citizenship that is particularly amenable to needs that are present in queer populations and communities. The sense of citizenship that Eurovision offers is of course distinct and different from the legal status of a citizen of a particular state that is a member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which runs the show. In…
Peripheral Desires
As Germany—and German-speaking Europe—became a fertile ground for homosexual subcultures in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, what factors helped construct the sexuality that emerged? Peripheral Desires examines how and why the political, scientific and literary culture of the region produced the modern vocabulary of sexuality.
Eurovision at 50
Eurovision, especially as it has developed since the 1990s after the fall of the Berlin Wall, offers a model of European citizenship that is particularly amenable to needs that are present in queer populations and communities. The sense of citizenship that Eurovision offers is of course distinct and different from the legal status of a citizen of a particular state that is a member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which runs the show. In…
Winckelmann – Homosexualität, schwule Kultur, Queer Theory
Bereits zu seinen Lebzeiten war W. für seine enthusiastische sinnliche Liebe zu jungen Männern bekannt. Seine Veranlagung wurde bemerkenswert offen besprochen, manchmal sogar positiv bewertet, und von Anfang an mit seiner kunsthistorischen Arbeit in Verbindung gebracht. Obwohl W. fast genau einhundert Jahre vor der Einführung des modernen Begriffs »Homosexualität« ermordet wurde, fand er bald Aufnahme in die Reihe berühmter Homosexueller. Noch he…
A Song for Europe
Eurovision, especially as it has developed since the 1990s after the fall of the Berlin Wall, offers a model of European citizenship that is particularly amenable to needs that are present in queer populations and communities. The sense of citizenship that Eurovision offers is of course distinct and different from the legal status of a citizen of a particular state that is a member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which runs the show. In…
Human Rights and German Intellectual History in Transnational Perspective
Human rights, recently, have been a controversial topic. A debate has unfolded that includes concerns about their political instrumentalization, appropriation, and narrowing, as well as fundamental critiques about their viability from leftist and right-wing perspectives. On the one hand human rights today are seen as central to domestic and international politics; on the other hand their legitimacy is questioned more than ever (see Benhabib 8–11)…
Katie Sutton, Sex Between Body and Mind
Katie Sutton, Sex Between Body and Mind: Psychoanalysis and Sexology in the German-speaking World, 1890s-1930s Sutton Katie, Sex Between Body and Mind: Psychoanalysis and Sexology in the German-speaking World, 1890s-1930s, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019. Pp. 347. $90. ISBN 978 0 472 13160 0. Robert Deam Tobin Robert Deam Tobin Clark University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google…
LGBTQ+ Rights after the Report on unalienable Rights
When Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called for and established a Commission on Unalienable Rights in 2019, alarm bells went off for many, especially in LGBTQ+ communities. In its May 20, 2020, submission to the commission, the nongovernmental organization Human Rights Watch indicated that it was particularly concerned that the outcome of the deliberations would “jeopardize the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.”1 Give…
Confessional
Bob Tobin originally wrote this essay in 2000 as the preface to his first book, Warm Brothers: Queer Theory and the Age of Goethe. At the time, however, only one of the reviewers of the manuscript approved of it, so he decided not to include it in the book. In the summer of 2022, when Bob was struggling with liver cancer, he remembered this essay and expressed his desire to have it published, but it was nowhere to be found in his home or office f…
Sociology (5 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · European history and politics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · German (2 works) · History (2 works)