Weimar through the lens of gender
Subtitle: prostitution reform, woman's emancipation, and German democracy, 1919-33
By: Julia Roos.
Series: Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780472117345
Subjects: Prostitution -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Prostitution -- Law and legislation -- Germany; Women's rights -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Equality -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Germany -- Politics and government -- 1918-1933
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Disciplining women and containing "pollution" : the rationale of regulationism; title: From outcasts to citizens : tracing the lives and movements of Weimar prostitutes; title: Did the feminists fail? : the women's movement, prostitution reform, and the contradictory potentials of maternalism; title: Toward a new morality? : the left and the problem of prostitution; title: The politics of "immorality" : prostitution reform, the conservative backlash, and the crises of Weimar democracy.