Gender and Sexuality in Weimar Modernity
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Gender and Sexuality in Weimar Modernity

Film, Literature, and "New Objectivity"

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eBook - PDF

Gender and Sexuality in Weimar Modernity

Film, Literature, and "New Objectivity"

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Chapter 1 Introduction Blurred Boundaries: Modernity, Crisis, and Emancipation in the Culture of the Weimar Republic
  9. Chapter 2 From Caligari to Dietrich: Anxieties About Sex and Gender in Weimar Cinema and Culture
  10. Chapter 3 “New Objectivity”: Ambivalent Accommodations with Modernity
  11. Chapter 4 Boys in Crisis: Discourses of Castration in the Early Stabilized Period
  12. Chapter 5 The End of Stability: “Phallic” New Women and Male Intellectuals
  13. Chapter 6 Girls in Crisis: Women’s Perspectives in Late Weimar
  14. Chapter 7 Weimar Culture Now: “Americanism” and Post/Modernity
  15. Notes
  16. Works Cited
  17. Index