Mila Ganeva

Women in Weimar Fashion (eBook, ePUB)

Discourses and Displays in German Culture, 1918-1933

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

In the Weimar Republic, fashion was not only manipulated by the various mass media -- film, magazines, advertising, photography, and popular literature -- but also emerged as a powerful medium for women's self-expression. Female writers and journalists, including Helen Grund, Irmgard Keun, Vicki Baum, Elsa Maria Bug, and numerous others engaged in a challenging, self-reflective commentary on current styles. By regularly publishing on these topics in the illustrated press and popular literature, they transformed traditional genres and carved out significant public space for themselves. This book re-evaluates paradigmatic concepts of German modernism such as the flâneur, the Feuilleton, and Neue Sachlichkeit in the light of primary material unearthed in archival research: fashion vignettes, essays, short stories, travelogues, novels, films, documentaries, newsreels, and photographs. Unlike other studies of Weimar culture that have ignored the crucial role of fashion, the book proposes a new genealogy of women's modernity by focusing on the discourse and practice of Weimar fashion, in which the women were transformed from objects of male voyeurism into subjects with complex, ambivalent, and constantly shifting experiences of metropolitan modernity.

Mila Ganeva is Associate Professor of German at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782044482
• Artikelnr.: 56407180

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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