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Body by Weimar - Athletes, Gender, and German Modernity (Hardcover)
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Body by Weimar - Athletes, Gender, and German Modernity (Hardcover)
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See the author featured in the "New Books in History" podcast:
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In Body by Weimar, Erik N. Jensen shows how German athletes
reshaped gender roles in the turbulent decade after World War I and
established the basis for a modern body and modern sensibility that
remain with us to this day. The same cutting-edge techniques that
engineers were using to increase the efficiency of factories and
businesses in the 1920s aided athletes in boosting the productivity
of their own flesh and bones. Sportswomen and men embodied
modernity-quite literally-in its most streamlined, competitive,
time-oriented form, and their own successes on the playing fields
seemed to prove the value of economic rationalization to a
skeptical public that often felt threatened by the process.
Enthroned by the media as culture's trendsetters, champions in
sports such as tennis, boxing, and track and field also provided
models of sexual empowerment, social mobility, and
self-determination. They showed their fans how to be modern, and,
in the process, sparked heated debates over the aesthetics of the
body, the limits of physical exertion, the obligations of citizens
to the state, and the relationship between the sexes. If the images
and debates in this book strike readers as familiar, it might well
be because the ideal body of today-sleek, efficient, and equally
available to men and women-received one of its earliest
articulations in the fertile tumult of Germany's roaring twenties.
After more than eighty years, we still want the Weimar body.
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