E-Book, Englisch, 236 Seiten, EPUB, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm
Reihe: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
Prostitution and the New German Woman, 1890–1933
E-Book, Englisch, 236 Seiten, EPUB, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm
Reihe: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
ISBN: 978-0-8014-6969-5
Verlag: Cornell University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Combining extensive archival research with close readings of a broad spectrum of texts and images from the late Wilhelmine and Weimar periods, Smith recovers a surprising array of productive discussions about extramarital sexuality, women’s financial autonomy, and respectability. She highlights in particular the figure of the cocotte (Kokotte), a specific type of prostitute who capitalized on the illusion of respectable or upstanding womanhood and therefore confounded easy categorization. By exploring the semantic connections between the figure of the cocotte and the act of flirtation (of being coquette), Smith’s work presents flirtation as a type of social interaction through which both prostitutes and non-prostitutes in Imperial and Weimar Berlin could express extramarital sexual desire and agency.
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Introduction: Berlin's Bourgeois Whores1. Sex, Money, and Marriage: Prostitution as an Instrument of Conjugal Critique2. Righteous Women and Lost Girls: Radical Bourgeois Feminists and the Fight for Moral Reform3. Naughty Berlin?: New Women, New Spaces, and Erotic Confusion4. Working Girls: White-Collar Workers and Prostitutes in Late Weimar FictionConclusion: Berlin CoquetteBibliography
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