This collection will be of interest only to scholars of Michel Foucalt and Foucault-school sexuality studies, particularly those specializing in the history of Germany. The essays mix mostly German historical material with glosses on the work of Michel Foucault; historical individuals and situations are primarily seen as a means to discuss Foucauldian theory. The collection focuses mostly on Foucauldian sexual concerns: state coercion, prostitution, and alternative sexuality, mostly but not exclusively male homosexuality. The essay on transsexuality chooses to describe transsexual people in terms that transsexual people and civil rights organizations consider offensive and discriminatory. The book is divided into three sections: the first deals with German events or situations from before the mid-19th century; the second deals with Imperial and 20th-century German subjects, and the last is centered on contemporary political debates through the lens of academic French postmodernism. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)