Representing Berlin : sexuality and the city in Imperial and Weimar Germany /
"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...
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Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. rise of Berlin in Imperial Germany
- Theorizing Berlin
- City theory in Imperial Germany
- Berlin transformed: from trade exhibition to world city
- shop window of modernity
- 2. Gender and modernity in the work of Georg Simmel
- subjective and objective character of culture
- sociology of space
- 3. Sexuality and the city in Imperial Berlin
- Feminism and prostitution
- Hans Ostwald and Die Grossstadt Dokumente
- 4. Representing Berlin
- Transitions: from Imperial Weltstadt to Weimar vamp
- Painting the city: the lure of Berlin
- Impressions of the Imperial Grossstadt
- Expressions of the modern metropolis.
- 1. rise of Berlin in Imperial Germany
- Theorizing Berlin
- City theory in Imperial Germany
- Berlin transformed: from trade exhibition to world city
- shop window of modernity
- 2. Gender and modernity in the work of Georg Simmel
- subjective and objective character of culture
- sociology of space
- 3. Sexuality and the city in Imperial Berlin
- Feminism and prostitution
- Hans Ostwald and Die Grossstadt Dokumente
- 4. Representing Berlin
- Transitions: from Imperial Weltstadt to Weimar vamp
- Painting the city: the lure of Berlin
- Impressions of the Imperial Grossstadt
- Expressions of the modern metropolis.