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Gender and Sexuality in Weimar Modernity
R. McCormick
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Paperback. This work looks at the crisis of gender in Weimar Germany through the analysis of selected cultural texts. It traces the crisis of gender identities, both male and female, and reveals how a variety of narratives of the time displaced an assortment of social anxieties onto sexual relations. Num Pages: 250 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 287.
Richard McCormick takes a fresh look at the crisis of gender in Weimar Germany through the analysis of selected cultural texts, both literary and film, characterized under the label 'New Objectivity'. The 'New Objectivity' was characterized by a sober and unsentimental embrace of urban modernity, in contract to Expressionism's horror of technology and belief in 'auratic' art. This movement was profoundly gendered - the epitome of the 'New Objectivity' was the 'New Woman' - working, sexually emancipated, and unsentimental. The book traces the crisis of gender identities, both male and female, and reveals how a variety of narratives of the ... Read more
Richard McCormick takes a fresh look at the crisis of gender in Weimar Germany through the analysis of selected cultural texts, both literary and film, characterized under the label 'New Objectivity'. The 'New Objectivity' was characterized by a sober and unsentimental embrace of urban modernity, in contract to Expressionism's horror of technology and belief in 'auratic' art. This movement was profoundly gendered - the epitome of the 'New Objectivity' was the 'New Woman' - working, sexually emancipated, and unsentimental. The book traces the crisis of gender identities, both male and female, and reveals how a variety of narratives of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312293024
SKU
V9780312293024
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About R. McCormick
RICHARD MCCORMICK is Associate Professor of German at the University of Minnesota. His previous books include Politics of the Self: Feminism and the Postmodern in West German Literature and Film (Princeton UP) and Gender and German Cinema: Feminist Interventions (co-edited with Sandra Frieden, Vibeke Petersen, and Melissa Vogelsang; Berg).
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