Format:
1 Online-Ressource (vii, 204 pages)
,
illustrations
ISBN:
0857451219
,
9780857451217
Series Statement:
Monographs in German history v. 32
Content:
Ch. 1 "Which One Is the Man?" The Masculinization of Women's Fashions -- ch. 2 "In the Beginning There Was Sport": The Masculinized Female Athlete -- ch. 3 "My Emil Is Different": Queer Female Masculinities in the Weimar Media -- ch. 4 The Trouser Role: Female Masculinity as Performance -- ch. 5 Beyond Berlin: Female Masculinities in Weimar Fiction.
Content:
Throughout the Weimar period the so-called masculinization of womanA" was much more than merely an outsider or subcultural phenomenon; it was central to representations of the changing female ideal, and fed into wider debates concerning the health and fertility of the German raceA" following the rupture of war. While some commentators celebrated this new, A" masculineA" woman in her short skirt, tuxedo, and pageboy haircut as symbolic of women's entrance into non-traditional fields of work, leisure, and consumption, others held her up as a warning against deviating too far f
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
0857451200
Additional Edition:
9780857451200
Additional Edition:
9780857451200
Additional Edition:
9781782381051
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Sutton, Katie Masculine woman in Weimar Germany New York : Berghahn Books, 2011
Language:
English
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