Women and Modernity in Weimar Germany
Subtitle: Reality and Its Reflection in Popular Fiction
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: August 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781571811547
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Women's studies; Women in literature; History; Gender Studies; History - General History; German; History: World; Women's Studies - History; European - German; Europe - Germany; 20th century; German fiction; Germany; History and criticism; Popular culture
Description: "This book focuses on the popular fiction of Weimar Germany and explores the relationship between women, the texts they read, and the society in which they lived. A complex picture emerges that shows women taking center stage, not only in the fiction but also in the reality that shaped its fictional representations.

One of the author's conclusions is that it was the growing strength of female subjectivity, its strong positioning, and its insistent claim to visibility that occupied the imaginations and fears of Weimar culture and contributed in an important way to the crisis that afflicted the Weimar Republic."--BOOK JACKET.