Women in the Metropolis: Gender and Modernity in Weimar by Ankum Katharina von

By Ankum Katharina von

Bringing jointly the paintings of students in lots of disciplines, Women within the Metropolis offers a accomplished advent to women's event of modernism and urbanization in Weimar Germany. It exhibits girls as energetic individuals in inventive, social, and political events and records the wide variety in their responses to the multifaceted city tradition of Berlin within the Nineteen Twenties and 1930s.
Examining various media starting from medical writings to literature and the visible arts, the authors hint gendered discourses as they built to make experience of and control rising new photographs of femininity. in addition to treating vintage motion pictures corresponding to Metropolis and Berlin: Symphony of an exceptional City, the articles talk about different kinds of mass tradition, together with the style and the revue performances of Josephine Baker. Their emphasis on women's severe involvement within the building in their personal modernity illustrates the importance of the Weimar cultural event and its relevance to modern gender, German, movie, and cultural reviews.

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