Günter Bischof (editor) - Sexuality in Austria

Sexuality in
Austria

Contemporary Austrian Studies

Sponsored by the University of New Orleans and Universitt Innsbruck

Editors

Gnter Bischof, CenterAustria, University of New Orleans
Anton Pelinka, University of Innsbruck

Ingrid Bauer

University of Salzburg

Siegfried Beer

University of Graz

Evan Bukey

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Mario Caciagli

University of Florence

Gary Cohen

Center for Austrian Studies

University of Minnesota

Christine Day

University of New Orleans

Wilhelm Kohler

Tbingen University

Jacques Le Rider

University of Paris VIII

Kurt Richard Luther

University of Keele

Andrei S. Markovits

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Margareta Mommsen

University of Munich

Hanspeter Neuhold

University of Vienna

Max Preglau

University of Innsbruck

Sonja Puntscher Riekmann

University of Salzburg

Peter Pulzer

Oxford University

Oliver Rathkolb

University of Vienna

Sieglinde Rosenberger

University of Vienna

Dieter Stiefel

University of Vienna

Franz Szabo

Center for Austrian Studies,

University of Alberta

Ruth Wodak

University of Lancaster

Publication of this volume has been made possible through one time generous post-Hurricane Katrina grants by the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research as well as the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York. The Austrian Marshall Plan Anniversary Foundation in Vienna has also supported the production of this volume. Metropolitan College at the University of New Orleans and the Auslandsamt of the University of Innsbruck have provided additional financial support. The University of Chicago Press has granted permission to reprint David Lufts lead essay.

Contemporary Austrian Studies,
Volume 15

Gnter Bischof,
Anton Pelinka,
and
Dagmar Herzog
editors

First published 2009 by Transaction Publishers

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Library of Congress Catalog Number: 2006051105

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sexuality in Austria / Gnter Bischof, Anton Pelinka, Josef Kstlbauer, editors.

p. cm. -- (Contemporary Austrian studies ; v. 15)

Includes index.

ISBN 1-4128-0606-2 (alk. paper)

1. Sex--Austria--History--20th century. I. Bischof, Gnter, 1953-II. Pelinka, Anton, 1941- III. Kstlbauer, Josef, 1976-HQ18.A9S48 2007 306.709436--dc22

HQ18.A9S48 2007

306.709436--dc22

2006051105

ISBN 13: 978-1-4128-0606-0 (pbk)

Of all the fifteen issues of Contemporary Austrian Studies, this one was the most challenging to prepare for publication. I call it the emotional roller-coaster volume. The idea was born three years ago during a visit to Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. There I first envisioned and discussed with Dagmar Herzog, who had just finished a monograph on sexuality in postwar Germany, the possibility of an issue on Sexuality in Austria. In a follow-up lunch meeting with Dagmar in an Arlington, Virginia, hotel during the annual meeting of the German Studies Association, we conceptualized the volume and drew up a list of names of scholars to be invited to contribute to this volume. Most of those contacted eagerly agreed to write essays; a few were hesitant and turned us down. Some agreed and did not deliver. Others joined late in the game when the volume was already conceptualized and sent us excellent work from their ongoing research projects. First and foremost, we are grateful to our contributors for helping us to make this volume a special one.

This fifteenth anniversary issue is a special one for a number of reasons. The essays were due by the end of 2005 in the midst of the aftermath of a devastating natural catastrophe in the Crescent City and along the Louisiana Gulf Coast. On August 29, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans; its 20 to 30-foot water surges broke the floodwalls of canals and inundated 80 percent of the city. A month later, Hurricane Rita hit the coast of western Louisiana and finished off what Katrina had left standing. The University of New Orleans (UNO), home of CenterAustria where CAS is produced, experienced some flooding and wind damage, but suffered the most devastation from some 2,500 storm survivors, who, abandoned and without food and water, went on looting binges throughout the campus. UNO staged an astounding comeback. It was the only university in the Crescent City that resumed classes in the fall. On 10 October, five weeks post-Katrina (the new way time is being measured in the Crescent City) on a satellite campus in the suburbs, 7,000 students resumed their studies with online courses; another 1,000 were taught in regular classrooms by a faculty that had been scattered across the continent only weeks before. In mid-January, some 750 students graduated, many of them as a result of UNOs gargantuan effort to salvage the fall term. Chancellor Timothy Ryan and his vice-chancellors and deans came together a few days after Katrina hit and were determined to have a fall term and to re-launch the university in spite of the 100 million dollars in damages the facilities had suffered, including a brand new business college that had opened its doors barely a month before Katrina. Clearly, there were institutional responses that upstaged FEMA, the laggard and disoriented federal agency whose failure became symptomatic of the disastrous governmental response to this unprecedented catastrophe.

Katrina scattered the CenterAustria staff, too, far and wide. Gertraud Griessner, who manages the Center on a daily basis, relocated with her family to Seattle, Washington, for the fall term to place her kids in school. She returned in December to her Mid-City home that had escaped flooding by mere inches. Margaret Davidson, the resident director of our Academic Year Abroad program in Innsbruck, saw her apartment in Slidell badly damaged. Living an hour southwest of New Orleans, I was lucky to reside in the least mangled parish of coastal Louisiana and to find my home still standing and undamaged. My family returned to Larose after a two-day evacuation vacation to Hot Springs, Arkansas. Ten days after the storm, I began commuting to Baton Rouge, teaching for the fall semester at Louisiana State University. Jennifer Shimek, our devoted long-time copy editor at Loyola University in New Orleans, relocated to her parents house in Erie, Pennsylvania, and returned by October to find that her new Uptown home had escaped flooding, too. The annual dissertation fellow at UNO, financed through the Austrian Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science, decided she had had enough of the stormy Gulf Coast and returned to Vienna two weeks after Katrina. Part of the job of the Ministry Fellow is to help with the daily production chores of