Throughout the Weimar period the so-called "masculinization of
woman" was much more than merely an outsider or subcultural
phenomenon; it was central to representations of the changing
female ideal, and fed into wider debates concerning the health and
fertility of the German "race" following the rupture of war.
Drawing on recent developments within the history of sexuality,
this book sheds new light on representations and discussions of the
masculine woman within the Weimar print media from 1918-1933. It
traces the connotations and controversies surrounding this figure
from her rise to media prominence in the early 1920s until the
beginning of the Nazi period, considering questions of race, class,
sexuality, and geography. By focusing on styles, bodies and
identities that did not conform to societal norms of binary gender
or heterosexuality, this book contributes to our understanding of
gendered lives and experiences at this pivotal juncture in German
history.
Katie Sutton is an Australian Research Council postdoctoral
fellow at the University of Melbourne, where she is researching the
historical relationship between sexology and psychoanalysis. She
has previously undertaken postdoctoral research on early
twentieth-century German sexual subcultures as a DAAD fellow at the
Universitat Potsdam, and holds a PhD from the University of
Melbourne.
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