Description
Book Synopsis 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 talking center stage, not only in the fiction but also in the reality that shaped its fictional representations. One of the author's significant 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.
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
Preface
Chapter 1. Mass Culture and Weimar Modernity
Chapter 2. Female Domestication or Marriage, Reproduction, and Family
- Bachelor Girls
- Reproductive T/Issues
- Sex and the Single Girl
Chapter 3. Work and Play
- Work in the City
- Work on the Land
- Play
Chapter 4. Classed Genders and Sexualities
- Un/Tamed Female Sexualities
- Working Girls
- Will the “Real” Woman Stand Up?
- In/Visible Classes
Chapter 5. Beyond the Pale – Others, Selves, and Nationhood
- Excessively Lesbian
- Clarity in Excess?
- Pathological Love
- Degenerate Eros
- Beyond the Pale
- The Black Mark
- Raced Sexualities
- German?/Jewish?
- The Power of Assimilation
- Body Image
Chapter 6. The Shape of Things
Appendix
Selected Bibliography
Index
