Dr Douglas Pretsell's Outputs (5)

A Baltic Antinous : queer affirmation in Carl Robert Egells’ Rubi, 1879 (2024)
Book Chapter
Pretsell, D. (in press). A Baltic Antinous : queer affirmation in Carl Robert Egells’ Rubi, 1879. In Rewriting Gender in an Age of Transition, 1880-1940. Routledge

This chapter discusses Rubi, by Carl Robert Egells, a historically important novella published in 1879. Rubi contains a self-affirming narrative of same-sex attraction, ahead of its time in German literature. Set on the Baltic coast, the novella expl... Read More about A Baltic Antinous : queer affirmation in Carl Robert Egells’ Rubi, 1879.

How Human Rights Became Gay Rights (2024)
Journal Article
Pretsell, D., & Willem Jones, T. (2024). How Human Rights Became Gay Rights. Human Rights Quarterly, 46(3), 437-460. https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2024.a933872

When the Legislative Council of the Australian island state of Tasmania rejected gay law reform in July 1991, a group of enterprising activists took their case to the United Nations. In April 1994, the United Nations Human Rights Committee ruled in t... Read More about How Human Rights Became Gay Rights.

The Great Paradigm Shift: Queer identity in 1860s Germany (Poster) (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Pretsell, D. (2024, June). The Great Paradigm Shift: Queer identity in 1860s Germany (Poster). Poster presented at Queer and Trans History Now Postgraduate Symposium, Mansfield College, Oxford

Queer Urbanisms in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany: Of Towns and Villages (2024)
Journal Article
Pretsell, D. (2025). Queer Urbanisms in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany: Of Towns and Villages. Journal of Homosexuality, 73(3), 596-598. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2024.2326495

Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century (2024)
Book
Pretsell, D. (2024). Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century. (1). University of Toronto Press. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487555603

In 1864, the German jurist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs coined the term "urning" as a word for same-sex attracted men. Over the next few years, first anonymously and then publicly, he campaigned against the public persecution of these men. "Urnings" engaged... Read More about Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century.