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

Title: Weimar through the lens of gender : prostitution reform, woman's emancipation, and German democracy, 1919-33 / Julia Roos.
Author: Roos, Julia.
Publication: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2010.

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Description

viii, 314 pages; 24 cm

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.

Series Statement

Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany

Uniform Title

Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN

9780472117345
0472117343
9780472123711 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2010007943

OCLC

ocn560548753
560548753
SCSB-14688868

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library