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title	:	Women in the Metropolis : Gender and Modernity in Weimar Culture Weimar and Now ; 11
author	:	Ankum, Katharina von.
publisher	:	University of California Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0520204654
print isbn13	:	9780520204652
ebook isbn13	:	9780585079400
language	:	English
subject	Urban women--Germany--History, Germany--Social conditions--1918-1933, Women--Germany--History--20th century, Feminism--Germany--History--20th century.
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	HQ1623.W66 1997eb
ddc	:	305.4/0943
subject	:	Urban women--Germany--History, Germany--Social conditions--1918-1933, Women--Germany--History--20th century, Feminism--Germany--History--20th century.

Page i Women in the Metropolis

Page ii WEIMAR AND NOW: GERMAN CULTURAL CRITICISM MARTIN JAY AND ANTON KAES, CENERAL EDITORS 1. Heritage of Our Times, by Ernst Bloch 2. The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany 1890-1990, by Steven E. Aschheim 3. The Weimar Republic Sourcebook, edited by, Anton Kaes, Martin Jay, and Edward Dimendberg 4. Batteries of Life: On the History of Things and Their Perception in Modernity, by Christoph Asendorf 5. Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution, by Margaret Cohen 6. Hollywood in Berlin: American Cinema and Weimar Germany, by, Thomas J. Saunders 7. Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetic of Redemption, by Richard Wolin 8. The New Typography, by Jan Tschichold, translated by Ruari McLean 9. The Rule of Law under Siege: Selected Essays of Franz L. Neumann and Otto Kirchheimer, edited by William E. Scheuerman 10. The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950, by Martin Jay 11. Women in the Metropolis: Gender and Modernity in Weimar Culture, edited by Katharina von Ankum

Page iii Women in the Metropolis Gender and Modernity in Weimar Culture Edited By Katharina von Ankum UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley Los Angeles London

Page iv Disclaimer: Some images in the original hard copy book are not available for inclusion in the netLibrary eBook. The publisher gratefully acknowledges permission to reprint the following: "Ich liebe Berlin mit einer Angst in den Knien: Frau und Stadt in Irmgard Keuns Das kunstseidene Madchen," by Katharina von Ankum, reprinted in somewhat revised form from The German Quarterly 67:3 (Summer 1994); "In Search of the Female Flaneur: Women on the Streets and Screens of Weimar," by Anke Gleber, to appear in The Image in Dispute: Visual Cultures in Modernity, ed.J. Dudley Andrew, Universit of Texas Press (Spring 1997), by permission of the publisher; "Lustmord: Inside the Windows of the Metropolis," by Beth Irwin Lewis, from Berlin: Culture and Metropolis, ed. Charles W. Haxthausen and Heidrun Suhr, University of Minnesota Press, 1990 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota; "Perceptions of Difference," by Patrice Petro, reprinted in slightly shortened form from Petro's Joyless Streets: Women and Melodramatic Representation in Weimar Germany 1989 by Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press. University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press London, England Copyright 1997 by The Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Women in the metropolis: gender and modernity in Weimar culture / edited by Katharina von Ankum. p. cm. (Weimar and now: 11) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-520-20464-6 (cloth). ISBN 0-520-20465-4 (pbk.) 1. Urban womenGermanyHistory. 2. GermanySocial conditions 1918-1933. 3. WomenGermanyHistory20th century. 4. FeminismGermanyHistory20th century. I. Ankum, Katharina von. II. Series. HQ1623.W66 1997 305.4'0943dc20 96-3118 CIP Printed in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984

Page v Contents Introduction 1 1. Gretchen, Girl, Garonne? Weimar Science and Popular Culture in Search of the Ideal New Woman Lynne Frame 12 2. Perceptions of Difference: Woman as Spectator and Spectacle Patrice Petro 41 3. Female Flanerie and the Symphony of the City Anke Gleber 67 4. The Conspiracy of Women: Images of City Life in the Work of Jeanne Mammen Annelie Ltgens 89 5. The Misogynist Machine: Images of Technology in the Work of Hannah Hch Maria Makela 106 6. Metropolis and the Technosexual Woman of German Modernity

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