Women in the metropolis
Subtitle: gender and modernity in Weimar culture
By: edited by Katharina von Ankum.
Contributors: Ankum, Katharina von.
Series: Weimar and now -- 11.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Urban women -- Germany -- History; Women -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Feminism -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Germany -- Social conditions -- 1918-1933
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gretchen, girl, Garçonne? Weimar science and popular culture in search of the ideal new woman / Lynne Frame; title: Perceptions of difference : woman as spectator and spectacle / Patrice Petro; title: Female flanerie and the Symphony of the city / Anke Gleber; title: The conspiracy of women : images of city life in the work of Jeanne Mammen / Annelie Lütgens; title: The misogynist machine : images of technology in the work of Hannah Höch / Maria Makela; title: Metropolis and the technosexual woman of German modernity / Janet Lungstrum; title: Femininity, the primitive, and modern urban space : Josephine Baker in Berlin / Nancy Nenno; title: Gendered urban spaces in Irmgard Keun's Das kunstseidene Mädchen / Katharina von Ankum; title: In the mirror of fashion / Sabine Hake; title: Lustmord : inside the windows of the metropolis / Beth Irwin Lewis.