Skip to main content

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Updates | More Information

  • Library
  • Giving
  • Directories
  • Events
  • Directions
  • information for...
    • Current Students
    • Faculty and Staff
    • Parents and Families
    • Undergraduate Admissions
    • Graduate Admissions
Home
  • About
  • Academics
  • Admissions
  • Financial Aid
  • Student Life
  • Alumnae/i

You are here

  1. Home ›
  2. Bryn Mawr College News and Headlines ›
  3. New Book by History's Anita Kurimay Looks at Queer Culture in Budapest

News

  • Bryn Mawr in the Media
  • Faculty Publications
  • Alumnae/i News
  • Athletics News
  • Mawrter Made Media
  • Events
  • Announcements
  • Class of 2020 Student Profiles

New Book by History's Anita Kurimay Looks at Queer Culture in Budapest

Posted October 13th, 2020 at 4:19 pm

Associate Professor of History Anita Kurimay's new book Queer Budapest 1873-1961 was recently published by The University of Chicago Press.

From the publisher:

"By the dawn of the twentieth century, Budapest was a burgeoning cosmopolitan metropolis. Known at the time as the 'Pearl of the Danube,' it boasted some of Europe’s most innovative architectural and cultural achievements, and its growing middle class was committed to advancing the city’s liberal politics and making it an intellectual and commercial crossroads between East and West. In addition, as historian Anita Kurimay reveals, fin-de-siècle Budapest was also famous for its boisterous public sexual culture, including a robust gay subculture. Queer Budapest is the riveting story of nonnormative sexualities in Hungary as they were understood, experienced, and policed between the birth of the capital as a unified metropolis in 1873 and the decriminalization of male homosexual acts in 1961.
 
"Kurimay explores how and why a series of illiberal Hungarian regimes came to regulate but also tolerate and protect queer life. She also explains how the precarious coexistence between the illiberal state and queer community ended abruptly at the close of World War II. A stunning reappraisal of sexuality’s political implications, Queer Budapest recuperates queer communities as an integral part of Hungary’s—and Europe’s—modern incarnation."


Kurimay was recently interviewed by New Books Network about the book.

Kurimay's main research interests include the history of sexuality, women’s and gender history, conservativism and the politics of the far right, the history of human rights, and the history of sport.

""
History Department
Gender and Sexuality Studies

Related Stories

Faculty Publication: Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History Kalala J. Ngalamulume
History's Sharon Ullman Previews 'Democracy in the Balance' Panel Event
Class of 2020: Noelle Stockwell
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Youtube
  • Instagram
  • About
  • Academics
  • Admissions
  • Financial Aid
  • Student Life
  • Alumnae/i
  • Library
  • Giving
  • Directories
  • Events
  • Directions
  • Jobs

Report a website issue

Web Accessibility Policy

Privacy Policy

Bryn Mawr College 101 North Merion Ave Bryn Mawr, PA 19010-2899
(610) 526-5000

Copyright © 2021

Give Now