Life among the ruins : cityscape and sexuality in Cold War Berlin /
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Author / Creator: | Evans, Jennifer V., 1970- |
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Imprint: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. |
Description: | xiv, 317 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Genders and sexualities in history series Genders and sexualities in history. |
Subject: | Sex customs -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century. Sexual ethics -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century. Sex role -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century. Prostitution -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century. Civil society -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century. Berlin (Germany) -- History -- 1945-1990. Berlin (Germany) -- Social conditions -- 20th century. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8547654 |
Summary: | As home to 1920s excess and Hitler's Final Solution, Berlin's physical and symbolic landscape was an important staging ground for the highs and lows of modernity. In Cold War Berlin, social and political boundaries were porous, and the rubble gave refuge to a re-emerging gay and lesbian scene, youth gangs, prostitutes, hoods, and hustlers. |
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Physical Description: | xiv, 317 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780230202016 (alk. paper) 0230202012 (alk. paper) |