German bodies
Subtitle: race and representation after Hitler
By: Uli Linke.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Body, Human -- Social aspects -- Germany; Body, Human -- Symbolic aspects -- Germany; Whites -- Race identity -- Germany; Germans -- Ethnic identity; National socialism -- History; Genocide -- Germany -- History; Germany -- Politics and government; Germany -- Race relations
Description: Focusing on the role of the human body, anthropologist Linke examines the ways Nazism and its legacy has defined German identity since 1945. Issues include public nudism, the revival of the cult of the body and the feminisation of guest labourers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-265) and index.