Against anticipation, or, camp reading as reparative to the trans feminine past: A microhistory in Nazi‐Era Vienna.
Whether trans people – especially trans women – were persecuted by the Nazi regime remains a contested yet under‐researched topic. But the wider political backdrop (including the culture wars and Holocaust memorialisation practices) steers this historical question with a monolithic value: victimisat...
| Publicado en: | Gender & History Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 191 - 208 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2024
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