This volume is the first full-length study on pioneering sexologist and sexual rights activist, Magnus Hirschfeld, that examines his impact on the politics and culture of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Germany and the value of his rationalist humanist approach for contemporary debates on sexual rights.

PART I: EARLY YEARS AND CULTURAL CONTEXT _ Hirschfeld's University Years, Early Travels and Encounters with the Literary World _ Urban Culture and Homosexuality _ Je ...