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Gender and Sexuality in Weimar Modernity

Film, Literature, and “New Objectivity”

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  • © 2001

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  1. Richard W. McCormick
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction Blurred Boundaries: Modernity, Crisis, and Emancipation in the Culture of the Weimar Republic

    • Richard W. McCormick
    Pages 1-14

  3. From Caligari to Dietrich: Anxieties About Sex and Gender in Weimar Cinema and Culture

    • Richard W. McCormick
    Pages 15-37

  4. “New Objectivity”: Ambivalent Accommodations with Modernity

    • Richard W. McCormick
    Pages 39-58

  5. Boys in Crisis: Discourses of Castration in the Early Stabilized Period

    • Richard W. McCormick
    Pages 59-98

  6. The End of Stability: “Phallic” New Women and Male Intellectuals

    • Richard W. McCormick
    Pages 99-127

  7. Girls in Crisis: Women’s Perspectives in Late Weimar

    • Richard W. McCormick
    Pages 129-162

  8. Weimar Culture Now: “Americanism” and Post/Modernity

    • Richard W. McCormick
    Pages 163-174

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 175-240
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About this book

Richard McCormick takes a fresh look at the crisis of gender in Weimar Germany through the analysis of selected cultural texts, both literary and film, characterized under the label 'New Objectivity'. The 'New Objectivity' was characterized by a sober and unsentimental embrace of urban modernity, in contract to Expressionism's horror of technology and belief in 'auratic' art. This movement was profoundly gendered - the epitome of the 'New Objectivity' was the 'New Woman' - working, sexually emancipated, and unsentimental. The book traces the crisis of gender identities, both male and female, and reveals how a variety of narratives of the time displaced an assortment of social anxieties onto sexual relations.

About the author

RICHARD MCCORMICK is Associate Professor of German at the University of Minnesota. His previous books include Politics of the Self: Feminism and the Postmodern in West German Literature and Film (Princeton UP) and Gender and German Cinema: Feminist Interventions (co-edited with Sandra Frieden, Vibeke Petersen, and Melissa Vogelsang; Berg).

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