Representing Berlin : Sexuality and the City in Imperial and Weimar Germany
by
Dorothy Rowe
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0754604519
ISBN-13
9780754604518
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 21st, 2003
Print length
215 Pages
Weight
642 grams
Dimensions
16.70 x 24.10 x 1.80 cms
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This text demonstrates how the sexualized image of Berlin in Weimar Germany arose at the same time as radical social changes in the history and position of women were taking place. It argues that this specific image related to anxieties regarding the role of women in the public realm at this time.
Berlin, city of Bertolt Brecht, Marlene Dietrich, cabaret and German Expressionism, a city identified with a female sexuality - at first alluring but then dangerous. In this fascinating study, Dorothy Rowe turns our attention to Berlin as a sexual landscape. She investigates the processes by which women and femininity played a prominent role in depictions of the city at the end of the nineteenth and into the early twentieth centuries. She explores how in the aftermath of the horrors of World War I, increasing anxieties about the liberation of women and the supposed increase of female prostitution contributed to the demonization of the city not as a focus of desire and pleasure but rather as one of alienation and anxiety.
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