Representing Berlin

"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.

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.

Year

2003

Language

English

Publisher

Ashgate Publishing

Editions

1

Pages

203

ISBN

9780754604518

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