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Contemporary Austrian Studies

Volume XV:
Sexuality in Austria

u.a. mit zahlreichen Beiträgen zur Sexualität in Wien um 1900.

Dagmar Herzog, Guest Editor

PREFACE

Günter Bischof, The Fifteenth Anniversary Issue and the Stormy Season

I. TOPICAL ESSAYS

Dagmar Herzog, Introduction

David Luft, Thinking about Sexuality and Gender in Vienna

Maria Mesner, Educating Reasonable Lovers: Sex Counseling in Austria
in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Ingrid Bauer/Renate Huber, Sexual Encounters across (Former) Enemy Lines

Franz Eder, The National Socialists' "Healthy Sensuality" succeeded
by the American Influence: Sexuality and Media from National
Socialism to the Sexual Revolution

Matti Bunzl, Queering Austria for the New Europe

Pieter Judson, A Scandal in the Seminary

Julia Woesthoff, Romancing the Foreigner? "Fictitious Marriages" and
the Crisis between Immigration and Human Rights

II. FORUM

Memory Boom: The "Year of Reflection" 2005

Katharina Wegan, After the Game is Before the Game: A Review of the
2005 Commemorations

Günter Bischof, Austrian Exhibition-ism: The Year 2005 and Its
Commemorations of the Recent Past in Exhibition Catalogues

Peter Berger, Of Affluence and Amnesia

Scholars have increasingly been investigating human sexuality as an important field of social history in particular national cultures. This volume examines both continuities and changing patterns of sexual behavior in Austria.

Sexuality in Austria reflects the broad variety of such recent research. David Luft introduces the volume with an essay on sexuality and gender in fin-de-siecle Vienna. Scott Spector traces the emergence of homosexuality in tabloids at the same time. Maria Mesner surveys the growing number of sex counseling organizations in interwar Vienna, some driven by eugenics, others by social concerns. Ties with Margaret Sanger's birth control movement in the U.S. are also documented. Ingrid Bauer and Renate Huber are the first scholars to treat the "foreign encounters" between Austrian women and occupation soldiers during the postwar quadripartite Austrian occupation regime in a comparative framework. Franz Eder traces the growing presence of sexual issues in post-World War II popular media and suggests parallels with the German case.

Matti Bunzl analyses the legal penalties for homosexuality in postwar Austria and the liberation of the gay movement as a result of EU pressures after Austria joined the European Union in 1995. Peter Judson analyzes the major influence of the Catholic Church on Austrian sexuality through the lens of a recent gay and sex abuse scandals in the church hierarchy. In "romancing the foreigner" Julia Woesthoff analyzes the growing presence of foreign workers (gastarbeiter) in postwar Austria and their sexual contacts with natives.

In a "non-topical essay" Katharina Wegan views the Austrian historical memory of the Austrian State Treaty through the fiftieth anniversary celebrations in 2005 and Günter Bischof analyzes the avalanche of historical exhibits and exhibit catalogues that flooded Austria in the "Gedankenjahr" 2005.