Gender and Sexuality in Weimar Modernity

Gender and Sexuality in Weimar Modernity Film, Literature, and "New Objectivity"

2001

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Publisher's Synopsis

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 time displaced an assortment of social anxieties onto sexual relations.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780312293024
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
Edition: 2001
DEWEY: 791.43653
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 240
Weight: 332g
Height: 139mm
Width: 216mm
Spine width: 17mm