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Representing Berlin : sexuality and the city in Imperial and Weimar Germany / Dorothy Rowe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rowe, Dorothy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex role.
- History.
- Women.
- Berlin (Germany)--Social conditions.
- Berlin (Germany).
- Women--Germany--Berlin--History.
- Sex role--Germany--Berlin--History.
- Germany--Berlin.
- Physical Description:
- x, 203 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2003]
- Contents:
- 1 The rise of Berlin in Imperial Germany 9
- Theorizing Berlin 10
- City theory in Imperial Germany 18
- Berlin transformed: from trade exhibition to world city 30
- A shop window of modernity 43
- 2 Gender and modernity in the work of Georg Simmel 63
- The subjective and objective character of culture 64
- The sociology of space 71
- 3 Sexuality and the city in Imperial Berlin 81
- Feminism and prostitution 81
- Hans Ostwald and Die Grossstadt Dokumente 90
- 4 Representing Berlin 130
- Transitions: from Imperial Weltstadt to Weimar vamp 131
- Painting the city: the lure of Berlin 140
- Impressions of the Imperial Grossstadt 141
- Expressions of the modern metropolis 147.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-198) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0754604519
- OCLC:
- 51095789
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