Exploring Selfhood through Performance in The Danish Girl

The Danish Girl presents the life history of a transgender person in early twentieth century Denmark and is remarkable for its use of visual codes to broach important questions on human subjectivity. The article probes deep into the social structure that frames subjectivity and questions the very idea of the symbolic. It looks at how the filmmaker makes use of cinematic elements as well as various codes and tropes provided to him by psychoanalysis, to critique the conventional understanding of phallic power. Grounded on the established domains of gender theorization, the article is therefore an interpretative analysis of the film that attempts to subvert these very discourses that frame our understanding of gender performance.

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The German Bourgeoisie: Essays on the Social History of the German Middle Class from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century

The Business History Review ◽

10.2307/3117396 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 67 (3) ◽

pp. 519

Author(s):

Toni Pierenkemper ◽

David Blackbourn ◽

Richard J. Evans

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Middle Class ◽

Social History ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

The Social ◽

Late Eighteenth ◽

History Of

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The German Bourgeoisie: Essays on the Social History of the German Middle Class from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century. Edited by David Blackbourn and Richard J. Evans (New York: Routledge, 1991. xix plus 348 pp. $74.50)

Journal of Social History ◽

10.1353/jsh/27.1.172 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 27 (1) ◽

pp. 172-175

Author(s):

R. Wetzell

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Middle Class ◽

Social History ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

The Social ◽

Late Eighteenth ◽

History Of

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The German Bourgeoisie: Essays on the Social History of the German Middle Class from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century, edited by David Blackbourn and Richard J. EvansThe German Bourgeoisie: Essays on the Social History of the German Middle Class from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century, edited by David Blackbourn and Richard J. Evans. New York, Routledge, 1991. xix, 337 pp. $74.50 U.S.

Canadian Journal of History ◽

10.3138/cjh.27.2.385 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 385-387

Author(s):

James Retallack

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Middle Class ◽

Social History ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

The Social ◽

Late Eighteenth ◽

History Of

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The German Bourgeoisie: Essays on the Social History of the German Middle Class from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century

German Studies Review ◽

10.2307/1430258 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 136

Author(s):

Eric D. Kohler ◽

David Blackbourn ◽

Richard J. Evans

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Middle Class ◽

Social History ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

The Social ◽

Late Eighteenth ◽

History Of

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Reviews : Celia Applegate, A Nation of Provincials: The German Idea of Heimat, Berkeley, New York and London, University of California Press, 1990; xi + 273 pp. ; US $39.95. David Blackbourn and Richard Evans, eds, The German Bourgeoisie: Essays on the Social History of the German Middle Class from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century, London, Routledge, 1991; xix + 348 pp,; £45.00

European History Quarterly ◽

10.1177/026569149302300123 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

pp. 112-115

Author(s):

Rudy Koshar

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Middle Class ◽

Social History ◽

University Of California ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

The Social ◽

Late Eighteenth ◽

History Of

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The German Bourgeoisie: Essays on the social history of the German middle class from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century; The Making of the Jewish Middle Class. Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany

German History ◽

10.1093/gh/11.1.111 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 111-113

Author(s):

D. F. Crew

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Middle Class ◽

Social History ◽

Imperial Germany ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

The Social ◽

Late Eighteenth ◽

History Of

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The German Bourgeoisie: Essays on the Social History of the German Middle Class from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century. Edited byDavid Blackbourn and Richard J. Evans · New York: Routledge, 1991. xix + 348 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $74.50. ISBN 0-415-03597-X.

The Business History Review ◽

10.1017/s0007680500070689 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 67 (3) ◽

pp. 519-520

Author(s):

Toni Pierenkemper

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Middle Class ◽

Social History ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

The Social ◽

Late Eighteenth ◽

History Of

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The German Bourgeoisie: Essays on the Social History of the German Middle Class from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century.

The Economic History Review ◽

10.2307/2598067 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 45 (3) ◽

pp. 625 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lynn Abrams ◽

David Blackbourn ◽

Richard J. Evans

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Middle Class ◽

Social History ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

The Social ◽

Late Eighteenth ◽

History Of

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Histories of a Conspiracy, Zinder, 1906: Rethinking Colonial Occupation

Annales Histoire Sciences Sociales (English edition) ◽

10.1017/ahsse.2021.4 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 72 (4) ◽

pp. 567-604

Author(s):

Camille Lefebvre

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

The Social ◽

History Of ◽

Blind Spots

By tracing the history of what French colonizers considered a conspiracy against them, this paper seeks to reconstruct the complexity of the first phase of colonial occupation in Zinder (Niger) during the early twentieth century. It draws on three types of source, corresponding to three successive moments and to three different perspectives on the event: the archives of the colonial investigation, carried out by French officers to justify their action; the personal journals and notes of the interpreter Moïse Landeroin, who did not believe the accusations and opposed his superiors; and finally the letters written in Arabic by one of the defendants, Malam Yaro, to plead his innocence. These letters enable a new reading of what took place in 1906 by highlighting the social intricacies of Zinder society. Using more diverse sources thus makes it possible to reconstruct the different timelines of the occupation and to reveal the blind spots of a purely colonial interpretation of the event.

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Addressing the Social Determinants of Health

Southern California Quarterly ◽

10.1525/scq.2019.101.4.357 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 101 (4) ◽

pp. 357-395 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Saty Satya-Murti ◽

Jennifer Gutierrez

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Los Angeles ◽

Social Determinants Of Health ◽

Social Determinants ◽

Social Activism ◽

Determinants Of Health ◽

Medical Attention ◽

Community Center ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

The Social

The Los Angeles Plaza Community Center (PCC), an early twentieth-century Los Angeles community center and clinic, published El Mexicano, a quarterly newsletter, from 1913 to 1925. The newsletter’s reports reveal how the PCC combined walk-in medical visits with broader efforts to address the overall wellness of its attendees. Available records, some with occasional clinical details, reveal the general spectrum of illnesses treated over a twelve-year span. Placed in today’s context, the medical care given at this center was simple and minimal. The social support it provided, however, was multifaceted. The center’s caring extended beyond providing medical attention to helping with education, nutrition, employment, transportation, and moral support. Thus, the social determinants of health (SDH), a prominent concern of present-day public health, was a concept already realized and practiced by these early twentieth-century Los Angeles Plaza community leaders. Such practices, although not yet nominally identified as SDH, had their beginnings in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century social activism movement aiming to mitigate the social ills and inequities of emerging industrial nations. The PCC was one of the pioneers in this effort. Its concerns and successes in this area were sophisticated enough to be comparable to our current intentions and aspirations.

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