Full Description
I Will Not Abandon You brings to life the unrelenting defiance of queer women in fascist Germany.
In his latest book, award-winning historian Samuel Clowes Huneke shows how love, queer resistance, and collective action survived in the harrowing circumstances of Nazi rule. Drawing on a decade of archival research, Huneke takes readers into a hidden world, from the wartime balls that lesbian activists continued to organize to the concentration camps where women accused of loving women were imprisoned. Following a diverse cast of characters, Huneke reveals both the oppression that queer women faced and how they resisted fascism in solidarity with one another. Arguing that this solidarity - which transcended race, class, and gender - offers a compelling alternative to today's fractured identity politics, I Will Not Abandon You is a vital, new history of queer life under fascism and a call to rethink the foundations of progressive politics today.
Contents
Introduction: Even the Dead
Chapter 1: The Queer Years of Weimar
Chapter 2: Exterminate the Homosexuals
Chapter 3: The Hollow between Laws
Chapter 4: Twirling Through Fascism
Chapter 5: The Choices We Make
Chapter 6: Into the Abyss
Chapter 7: After the Fall
Coda: Three Memorials
A Note on Scholarship
Acknowledgements
Notes
