Representing Berlin
Subtitle: Sexuality and the City in Imperial and Weimar Germany
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780754604518
Subjects: Sex role; History; Berlin (Germany); Archaeology / Anthropology; Women; History: World; Social conditions; Anthropology - Cultural; European history: from c 1900 -; First World War, 1914-1918; Gender studies; History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Modernism; Sex & sexuality; Urban communities; c 1900 - c 1914; Berlin; Europe - Germany; Germany
First sentence: The above quotation by Hans Ostwald cogently signifies the impetus for this book, which is an investigation into how the image of Berlin within discourses of modernity after 1896 and before 1930 becomes conflated with an image of a sexually voracious and devouring female who comes to symbolize the city's modernity.
Description: "In this study, Dorothy Rowe turns our attention to Berlin as a sexual landscape. She investigates the processes by which women and femininity played a prominent role in depictions of the city at the end of the nineteenth and into the early twentieth centuries. She explores how in the aftermath of the horrors of World War I, increasing anxieties about the liberation of women and the supposed increase of female prostitution contributed to the demonization of the city not as a focus of desire and pleasure but rather as one of alienation and anxiety."--Jacket.