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

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Author / Creator:Rowe, Dorothy.
Imprint:Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2003.
Description:x, 203 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Subject:Women -- Germany -- Berlin -- History.
Sex role -- Germany -- Berlin -- History.
Sex role.
Social conditions
Women.
Berlin (Germany) -- Social conditions.
Germany -- Berlin.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4854370
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ISBN:0754604519 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-198) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of figures
  • The subjective and objective character of culture
  • The 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
  • Preface and acknowledgements
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Introduction
  • 1. 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
  • 2. Gender and modernity in the work of Georg Simmel