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Berlin Coquette : Prostitution and the New German Woman, 1890–1933 / Jill Suzanne Smith.

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Smith, Jill Suzanne, 1972- [author.]

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TextSeries: Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Library, 2013Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (236 pages)Content type:

text

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9780801469695

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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.

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. This book shows how this discourse transcended the usual cliches 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.

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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. This book shows how this discourse transcended the usual cliches 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.