Berlin coquette : prostitution and the new German woman, 1890-1933 / Jill Suzanne Smith.
During the late nineteenth century the city of Berlin developed such a reputation for lawlessness and sexual licentiousness that it came to be known as the "Whore of Babylon." Out of this reputation for debauchery grew an unusually rich discourse around prostitution. In Berlin Coquette, Ji...
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Ithaca, New York :
Cornell University Press : Cornell University Library,
2013.
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| Series: | Signale. Modern German letters, cultures, and thought.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Berlin's bourgeois whores
- Sex, money, and marriage : prostitution as an instrument of conjugal critique
- Righteous women and lost girls : radical bourgeois feminists and the fight for moral reform
- Naughty Berlin? : new women, new spaces, and erotic confusion
- Working girls : white-collar workers and prostitutes in late Weimar fiction
- Conclusion : Berlin coquette.