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Intermediaries : A Weimar Story by Brandy Schillace (2025, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-101324036311
ISBN-139781324036319
eBay Product ID (ePID)27071320646
Product Key Features
Book TitleIntermediaries : a Weimar Story
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicEurope / Germany, History
Publication Year2025
IllustratorYes
GenreMedical, History
AuthorBrandy Schillace
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight19.3 Oz
Item Length0.9 in
Item Width0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsThe Intermediaries is irrefutable proof that trans people have always existed, a story of liberation in the face of oppression--and a case study in how institutionalized hatred can grow alongside queer and trans joy., Brandy Schillace is a wise, witty, humane, and insightful guide in this fascinating and revelatory history. The Intermediaries is essential reading., [The Intermediaries] is an indispensable read for historians and enthusiasts seeking to uncover the nuanced and seldom-told stories of transgender people in history., Brandy Schillace is a first-rate medical historian with a novelist's soul. . . . The Intermediaries is a slam dunk., [The Intermediaries] is the crunchy, smart history of sexual science and liberation that we've all been waiting for.
Dewey Decimal306.76094309043
SynopsisSet in interwar Germany, The Intermediaries tells the forgotten story of the Institute for Sexual Science, the world's first center for homosexual and transgender rights. Headed by a gay Jewish man, Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, the institute aided in the first gender-affirming surgeries and hormone treatments, acting as a rebellious base of operations in the face of rising prejudice, nationalism, and Nazi propaganda. An expert in medical history, Brandy Schillace tells the story of the Institute through the eyes of Dora Richter, an Institute patient whom we follow in her quest to transition and live as a woman. While the colorful but ultimately tragic arc of Weimar Berlin is well documented, The Intermediaries is the first book to assert the inseparable, interdependent relationship of sex science to both the queer rights movement and the permissive Weimar culture, tracking how political factions perverted that same science to suit their own ends. This riveting book brings together forgotten scientific and surgical discoveries (including previously untranslated archival material from Berlin) with the politics and social history that galvanized the first stirrings of the trans rights movement. Through its unforgettable characters and immersive, urgent storytelling, The Intermediaries charts the relationships between nascent sexual science, queer civil rights, and the fight against fascism. It tells riveting stories of LGBTQ pioneers--a surprising, long-suppressed history--and offers a cautionary tale in the face of today's oppressive anti-trans legislation., Set in interwar Germany, The Intermediaries tells the forgotten story of the Institute for Sexual Science, the world's first center for homosexual and transgender rights. Headed by a gay Jewish man, Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, the institute aided in the first gender-affirming surgeries and hormone treatments, acting as a rebellious base of operations in the face of rising prejudice, nationalism, and Nazi propaganda. An expert in medical history, Brandy Schillace tells the story of the Institute through the eyes of Dora Richter, an Institute patient whom we follow in her quest to transition and live as a woman. While the colorful but ultimately tragic arc of Weimar Berlin is well documented, The Intermediaries is the first book to assert the inseparable, interdependent relationship of sex science to both the queer rights movement and the permissive Weimar culture, tracking how political factions perverted that same science to suit their own ends. This riveting book brings together forgotten scientific and surgical discoveries (including previously untranslated archival material from Berlin) with the politics and social history that galvanized the first stirrings of the trans rights movement. Through its unforgettable characters and immersive, urgent storytelling, The Intermediaries charts the relationships between nascent sexual science, queer civil rights, and the fight against fascism. It tells riveting stories of LGBTQ pioneers-a surprising, long-suppressed history-and offers a cautionary tale in the face of today's oppressive anti-trans legislation., The fascinating history of a daring team of sexologists who built the first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich.
