The Resource Berlin coquette : prostitution and the new German woman, 1890-1933, Jill Suzanne Smith
Berlin coquette : prostitution and the new German woman, 1890-1933, Jill Suzanne Smith
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- Summary
- 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, Jill Suzanne Smith shows how this discourse transcended the usual clichés about prostitutes and actually explored complex visions of alternative moralities or sexual countercultures including the "New Morality" articulated by feminist radicals, lesbian love, and the "New Woman." Combining extensive archival research with close readings of a broad spectrum of texts and images from the late Wilhelmine and Weimar periods, Smith recovers a surprising array of productive discussions about extramarital sexuality, women's financial autonomy, and respectability. She highlights in particular the figure of the cocotte (Kokotte), a specific type of prostitute who capitalized on the illusion of respectable or upstanding womanhood and therefore confounded easy categorization. By exploring the semantic connections between the figure of the cocotte and the act of flirtation (of being coquette), Smith's work presents flirtation as a type of social interaction through which both prostitutes and non-prostitutes in Imperial and Weimar Berlin could express extramarital sexual desire and agency.--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xii, 221 pages
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780801452673
- Label
- Berlin coquette : prostitution and the new German woman, 1890-1933
- Title
- Berlin coquette
- Title remainder
- prostitution and the new German woman, 1890-1933
- Statement of responsibility
- Jill Suzanne Smith
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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, Jill Suzanne Smith shows how this discourse transcended the usual clichés about prostitutes and actually explored complex visions of alternative moralities or sexual countercultures including the "New Morality" articulated by feminist radicals, lesbian love, and the "New Woman." Combining extensive archival research with close readings of a broad spectrum of texts and images from the late Wilhelmine and Weimar periods, Smith recovers a surprising array of productive discussions about extramarital sexuality, women's financial autonomy, and respectability. She highlights in particular the figure of the cocotte (Kokotte), a specific type of prostitute who capitalized on the illusion of respectable or upstanding womanhood and therefore confounded easy categorization. By exploring the semantic connections between the figure of the cocotte and the act of flirtation (of being coquette), Smith's work presents flirtation as a type of social interaction through which both prostitutes and non-prostitutes in Imperial and Weimar Berlin could express extramarital sexual desire and agency.--
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- Provided by Publisher
- Cataloging source
- NIC/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1972-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Smith, Jill Suzanne
- Dewey number
- 306.74094309034
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Signale Ithaca, N.Y
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Prostitution
- Prostitution
- Label
- Berlin coquette : prostitution and the new German woman, 1890-1933, Jill Suzanne Smith
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-211) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- 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
- Control code
- FIEb17633540
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xii, 221 pages
- Isbn
- 9780801452673
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- FIE
- (OCoLC)850856474
- Label
- Berlin coquette : prostitution and the new German woman, 1890-1933, Jill Suzanne Smith
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-211) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- 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
- Control code
- FIEb17633540
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xii, 221 pages
- Isbn
- 9780801452673
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- FIE
- (OCoLC)850856474
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