Heinrich Schurtz

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Heinrich Schurtz (born 11 December 1863 in Zwickau; died 2 May 1903 in Bremen) was a German ethnologist and historian. His most significant work is said to be Altersklassen und Männerbünde (Age-classes and Male Bands) which emphasized the role gender and generational issues have in social institutions and argued that basing the society on the family was a step backwards.[1] His notion of Männerbünde placed male associations, where he deemed masculinity more "unfettered", in opposition to the family which he saw as dominated by women.[2] Notions of Männerbünde, though not just Schurtz's, would have an influence on Nazi Germany's SS[3] while in a very different way his ideas on same-sex bonding has become of historical interest to Queer studies.


References[]

  1. ^ Queer Theory and the Jewish Question by Daniel Boyarin, Daniel Itzkovitz, and Ann Pellegrini, pg 103
  2. ^ The Upheaval of War: Family, Work and Welfare in Europe, 1914-1918 by Richard Wall, Jay Winter
  3. ^ The Science of the Swastika by Bernard Thomas Mees, pg 90
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