Berlin coquette prostitution and the new German woman, 1890-1933
During the late nineteenth century the city of Berlin developed such a reputation for lawlessness and sexual licentiousness that it came to be known as the "Whore of Babylon." Out of this reputation for debauchery grew an unusually rich discourse around prostitution. In Berlin Coquette, Ji...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca, New York
Cornell University Press
2013©2013, 2013
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| Series: | Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Introduction : Berlin's bourgeois whores
- Sex, money, and marriage : prostitution as an instrument of conjugal critique
- Righteous women and lost girls : radical bourgeois feminists and the fight for moral reform
- Naughty Berlin? : new women, new spaces, and erotic confusion
- Working girls : white-collar workers and prostitutes in late Weimar fiction
- Conclusion : Berlin coquette