Description:
Smith recovers a surprising array of discussions about extramarital sexuality, women's financial autonomy, and respectability in ate Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany.
Brief description:
Jill Suzanne Smith is Associate Professor of German at Bowdoin College.
Review Quotes:
Berlin Coquette is well written--an ever-rarer feature of academic writing, it seems--and well researched (Smith's footnotes are especially impressive).... This is an important contribution to a variety of fields (German studies, gender studies, history, urban studies, and theater/film studies come immediately to mind) and certainly one that will change the way we understand prostitution.
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