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Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century (2024)
Book
Pretsell, D. (2024). Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century. (1). Toronto: 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.

Decommissioning The Twentieth Century (2023)
Book
Anderson, B., & Morgan, C. (2023). Decommissioning The Twentieth Century. London: Uniform Books

In the decades after 1945, Britain witnessed a dramatic period of technological innovation and expansion. The state transformed the countryside with grids of pylons, huge concrete edifices, and a new era of extraction, while both rural and urban soci... Read More about Decommissioning The Twentieth Century.

Queer Voices in the Works of Richard von Krafft-Ebing, 1883–1901 (2023)
Book
Pretsell, D. (2023). Queer Voices in the Works of Richard von Krafft-Ebing, 1883–1901. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17331-8

This book is a critical edition of the autobiographical case studies used by the Austro-German psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing between 1883 and 1901. Forty-one individual case studies of same-sex attracted men and women, in their own words, mad... Read More about Queer Voices in the Works of Richard von Krafft-Ebing, 1883–1901.

The Correspondence of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, 1846-1894 (2020)
Book
Pretsell, D. O. (2020). The Correspondence of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, 1846-1894. (1). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39763-0

This book is the first critical edition of all the surviving correspondence to, from and about Karl Heinrich Ulrichs between 1846 and 1894. Ulrichs, a former Hanoverian lawyer, was the first to articulate a personal identity of sexuality that defined... Read More about The Correspondence of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, 1846-1894.

The evolution of the questionnaire in German sexual science: A methodological narrative (2019)
Journal Article
Pretsell, D. (2020). The evolution of the questionnaire in German sexual science: A methodological narrative. History of Science, 58(3), 326-349. https://doi.org/10.1177/0073275319881014

The sexological research questionnaire, which became a central research tool in twentieth-century sexology, has a methodological-developmental history stretching back into mid-nineteenth century Germany.
It was the product of a prolonged, disruptive... Read More about The evolution of the questionnaire in German sexual science: A methodological narrative.