Main entry:

Price, Dorothy C. (Dorothy Cilla), 1969-

Title & Author:

Representing Berlin : sexuality and the city in Imperial and Weimar Germany / Dorothy Rowe.

Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2003.

Description:

x, 203 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Essex, 1997.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-198) and index.
1. rise of Berlin in Imperial Germany -- Theorizing Berlin -- City theory in Imperial Germany -- Berlin transformed: from trade exhibition to world city -- shop window of modernity -- 2. Gender and modernity in the work of Georg Simmel -- subjective and objective character of culture -- sociology of space -- 3. Sexuality and the city in Imperial Berlin -- Feminism and prostitution -- Hans Ostwald and Die Grossstadt Dokumente -- 4. 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.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"In this 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."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0754604519 (alk. paper)
9780754604518 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Women Germany Berlin History.
Sex role Germany Berlin History.
Femmes Allemagne Berlin Histoire.
Rôle selon le sexe Allemagne Berlin Histoire.
Sex role
Social conditions
Women
Frau
Gesellschaftsbild
Literatur
Modernität
Sexualverhalten
Vrouwen.
Seksualiteit.
Beeldvorming.
Dones Alemanya Història.
Dones Conducta sexual Alemanya S. XX.
Modernism (Aesthetics) Germany Berlin History.
Femmes Berlin (Allemagne) Histoire.
Rôle selon le sexe Berlin (Allemagne) Histoire.
Femmes Dans l'art.
Condition sociale.
Femme.
Histoire.
Rôle selon le sexe.
Sexualité
Régime de Weimar (Allemagne, 1919-1933)
Berlin (Germany) Social conditions.
Berlin (Allemagne) Conditions sociales.
Germany Berlin
Berlin
Berlín (Alemanya) Condicions socials.
Berlin (Germany) History.
Berlin (Germany) Civilization.
Berlin (Germany) In art.
Allemagne.
Berlin (Allemagne)

Form/genre:

Theses.
History
Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 227906
Call No.: HN458.B4 R68 2003
Status: Available