Washington University in St. Louis Washington University Open Scholarship All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) 1-1-2011 Lustmord and Loving the Other: A History of Sexual Murder in Modern Germany and Austria (1873-1932) Amber Aragon-Yoshida Washington University in St. Louis Follow this and additional works at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/etd Recommended Citation Aragon-Yoshida, Amber, "Lustmord and Loving the Other: A History of Sexual Murder in Modern Germany and Austria (1873-1932)" (2011). All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). 551. https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/etd/551 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by Washington University Open Scholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) by an authorized administrator of Washington University Open Scholarship. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS Department of History Dissertation Examination Committee: Hillel Kieval, Chair Andrea Friedman Gerald N. Izenberg Paul Michael Lützeler Lynne Tatlock Corinna Treitel LUSTMORD AND LOVING THE OTHER: A HISTORY OF SEXUAL MURDER IN MODERN GERMANY AND AUSTRIA (1873-1932) by Amber Marie Aragon-Yoshida A dissertation presented to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Washington University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy December 2011 Saint Louis, Missouri copyright by Amber Marie Aragon-Yoshida December 2011 Acknowledgments This project would not have been possible without the generous institutional support from the Department of History at Washington University in St. Louis. I also wish to thank the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Washington University for making possible my year abroad as an exchange student in 2006-2007 at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany.