Abstract

Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies has generated broad interest in the literature of several academic disciplines. His analysis of the symbolic and gender dynamics of the leaders of the German Freikorps (German paramilitary mercenary units of the period 1918-1923) has been widely generalized into a theory of modern masculinity. Two issues inadequately explored in Theweleit's work nonetheless must be read through more recent empirical and theoretical work in history and sociology: (1) the formative role of colonial military experience in the careers of the German Freikorps officers who provide the material for his analysis and (2) the complex historical problem of the facticity of rape in Freikorps activity.

Document Type

Article

Source Publication

Men and Masculinities

Version

Accepted Version

Publication Date

1-1-2009

Volume

11

Issue

4

First Page

488

Last Page

496

Rights

© 2009 SAGE Publications

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