Article
On Rereading Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies
Men and Masculinities
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Publication Version
Submitted Manuscript
Publication Date
6-1-2009
DOI
10.1177/1097184X08322611
Abstract
Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies has generated broad interest in the literature of several academic disciplines. His analysis of the symbolic and gender dynamics of the leaders of the German Freikorps (German paramilitary mercenary units of the period 1918-1923) has been widely generalized into a theory of modern masculinity. Two issues inadequately explored in Theweleit's work nonetheless must be read through more recent empirical and theoretical work in history and sociology: (1) the formative role of colonial military experience in the careers of the German Freikorps officers who provide the material for his analysis and (2) the complex historical problem of the facticity of rape in Freikorps activity.
Copyright Owner
Sage Publications
Copyright Date
2009
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Citation Information
Kevin S Amidon and Daniel A. Krier. "On Rereading Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies" Men and Masculinities Vol. 11 Iss. 4 (2009) p. 488 - 496 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kevin_amidon/5/
This is a manuscript of an article from Men and Masculinities 11 (2009): 488, doi: 10.1177/1097184X08322611. Posted with permission. Not for quotation or distribution.