Women in Weimar Fashion - Discourses and Displays in German Culture, 1918-1933

New view of the crucial role of fashion discourse and practice in Weimar Germany and its significance for women.

List of contents

Introduction: On Fashion, Women, and Modernity
The Fashion Journalist: Flâneur or New Woman?
Fashion Journalism at Ullstein House
In the Waiting Room of Literature: Helen Grund and the Practice of Fashion and Travel Writing
Weimar Film as Fashion Show
The Mannequins
Fashion and Fiction: Women's Modernity in Irmgard Keun's Novel Gilgi
Epilogue
Appendix I: Biographical Information on Fashion Journalists and Fashion Illustrators
Appendix II: A List of German Feature Films about Fashion from the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s
Works Cited
Index

About the author

MILA GANEVA is Department Chair and Professor of German at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

Summary

New view of the crucial role of fashion discourse and practice in Weimar Germany and its significance for women.

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Mila (Customer) Ganeva, Mila Ganeva, Mila (Customer) Ganeva
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2011
• EAN: 9781571135162
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-516-2
• No. of pages: 252
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 228 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 383 g
• Series: Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual; Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories