Weimar through the lens of gender : prostitution reform, woman's emancipation, and German democracy, 1919-33 /

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Author / Creator:	Roos, Julia.
Imprint:	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2010.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 314 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.
Subject:	Prostitution -- Germany -- History -- 20th century. Prostitution -- Law and legislation -- Germany. Women's rights -- Germany -- History -- 20th century. Equality -- Germany -- History -- 20th century. Equality. Politics and government Prostitution. Prostitution -- Law and legislation. Women's rights. Germany -- Politics and government -- 1918-1933. Germany. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12681353

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ISBN:	9780472123711 0472123718 9780472117345 0472117343
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Until 1927, Germany had a system of state-regulated prostitution, under which only those prostitutes who submitted to regular health checks and numerous other restrictions on their personal freedom were tolerated by the police. Male clients of prostitutes were not subject to any controls. The decriminalization of prostitution in 1927 resulted from important postwar gains in women's rights; yet this change--while welcomed by feminists. Social Democrats, and liberals--also mobilized powerful conservative resistance. In the early 1930s, the right-wing backlash against liberal gender reforms like the 1927 prostitution law played a fateful role in the downfall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Nazism. Weimar through the Lens of Gender combines the political history of early twentieth-century Germany with analytical perspectives derived from the fields of gender studies and the history of sexuality. The book's argument will be of interest to a broad readership: specialists in the fields of gender studies and the history of sexuality, as well as historians and general readers interested in Weimar and Nazi Germany. --Book Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Roos, Julia. Weimar through the lens of gender. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2010 9780472117345
Standard no.:	10.3998/mpub.1048300

Table of Contents:

Disciplining women and containing "pollution" : the rationale of regulationism
From outcasts to citizens : tracing the lives and movements of Weimar prostitutes
Did the feminists fail? The women's movement, prostitution reform, and the contradictory potentials of maternalism
Toward a new morality? The left and the problem of prostitution
The politics of "immorality" : prostitution reform, the conservative backlash, and the crises of Weimar democracy.

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