I Will Not Abandon You
Queer Women in Nazi Germany

By (author) Samuel Clowes Huneke

ISBN13: 9781487554347

Imprint: Aevo UTP

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Published: 14/04/2026

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Description
I Will Not Abandon You brings to life the unrelenting defiance of queer women in fascist Germany. In his latest book, award-winning historian Samuel Clowes Huneke shows how love, queer resistance, and collective action survived in the harrowing circumstances of Nazi rule. Drawing on a decade of archival research, Huneke takes readers into a hidden world, from the wartime balls that lesbian activists continued to organize to the concentration camps where women accused of loving women were imprisoned. Following a diverse cast of characters, Huneke reveals both the oppression that queer women faced and how they resisted fascism in solidarity with one another. Arguing that this solidarity – which transcended race, class, and gender – offers a compelling alternative to today’s fractured identity politics, I Will Not Abandon You is a vital, new history of queer life under fascism and a call to rethink the foundations of progressive politics today.
Introduction: Even the Dead Chapter 1: The Queer Years of Weimar Chapter 2: Exterminate the Homosexuals Chapter 3: The Hollow between Laws Chapter 4: Twirling Through Fascism Chapter 5: The Choices We Make Chapter 6: Into the Abyss Chapter 7: After the Fall Coda: Three Memorials A Note on Scholarship Acknowledgements Notes
  • Gender studies: women
  • Lesbian studies
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Height:216
Width:140
Spine:25
Weight:1.00
List Price: £22.99