Representing Berlin

Sexuality and the City in Imperial and Weimar Germany
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-7546-0451-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 215 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 481 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rowe, Dorothy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Preface; Introduction; The Rise of Berlin in Imperial Germany: Theorizing Berlin; City theory in Imperial Germany; Berlin transformed: from trade exhibition to world city; A shop window of modernity; Gender and Modernity in the work of Georg Simmel: The subjective and objective character of culture; The sociology of space; Sexuality and the City in Imperial Berlin: Feminism and prostitution; Hans Ostwald and Die Großstadt Dokumente; Representing Berlin: Transitions: from Imperial Weltstadt to Weimar vamp; Painting the city: the lure of Berlin; Impressions of the Imperial Großstadt; Expressions of the modern metropolis; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Dorothy Rowe