The intermediaries : a Weimar story / Brandy Schillace.
| Author/creator | Schillace, Brandy author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2025] |
| Description | x, 340 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Weimar story |
| Contents | The science of small things -- Troubled alliances -- The third sex on trial -- Unbridgeable distance -- Powder keg and plucked string -- The endocrinologist's gamble -- The love and the sorrow -- The doctor will see you now -- 1923 in four acts -- Lives in transition -- All the devils are here -- The end of everything -- Incendiary matters. |
| Abstract | "Set in interwar Germany, 'The Intermediaries' tells the forgotten story of the Institute for Sexual Science, the world's first centre 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 replacements, acting as a rebellious base of operations in the face of rising prejudice, nationalism and Nazi propaganda. Brandy Schillace introduces readers to Dora Richter, an institute patient whom we follow from early desperate years to gender-affirming care and her right to live as a woman. She offers an example of queer resilience in the face of punishing cultural constraints"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-322) and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781324036326 |
| Genre/form | Informational works. |
| ISBN | 9781324036319 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 1324036311 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (ePub ebook) |
| Standard identifier# | CIPO000218190 |