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Article: Women in the Metropolis: Gender and Modernity in Weimar Culture.(Review)
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- The Germanic Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 1998
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Katharina von Ankum, ed. Women in the Metropolis: Gender and Modernity in Weimar Culture. [Martin Jay and Anton Kaes, General Editors Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism] Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. 238.
In many ways these "texts [that] undertake an archaeology of Berlin as the `city of women' in the 1920s and 1930s" (7) are just what we have been looking for. In her well-put-together introduction Katharina von Ankum distinguishes the collection both from historical gender studies, beginning with When Biology Became Destiny, edited by Renate Bridenthal, Atina Grossman, and Marion Kaplan (Monthly Review Press, ...
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