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The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

Brook, Daniel

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralGeneral Gender Studies

Publisher Price: $32.99

ISBN10: 1324007249
ISBN13: 9781324007241
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: May 13 2025
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.18 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.06
Language: English

More than a century ago, Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, dubbed the Einstein of Sex, grew famous (and infamous) for his liberating theory of sexual relativity. Today, he's been largely forgotten.

Journalist Daniel Brook retraces Hirschfeld's rollicking life and reinvigorates his legacy, recovering one of the great visionaries of the twentieth century. In an era when gay sex was a crime and gender roles rigid, Hirschfeld taught that each of us is their own unique mixture of masculinity and femininity. Through his public advocacy for gay rights and his private counseling of patients toward self-acceptance, he became the intellectual impresario of Berlin's cabaret scene and helped turn his hometown into the world's queer capital. But he also enraged the Nazis, who ransacked his Institute for Sexual Science and burned his books

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