REPRESENTING BERLIN by Dorothy Rowe ( 9780754604518 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

REPRESENTING BERLIN
SEXUALITY AND THE CITY IN IMPERIAL AND WEIMAR GERMANY

By:

Dorothy Rowe

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0754604519

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9780754604518

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

21 February, 2003

Pages:

216

Description:

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.

Synopsis:

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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Includes 57 b&w illustrations

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Ashgate Publishing Limited

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