Gender and Sexuality in Weimar Modernity

Richard McCormick takes a fresh look at the crisis of gender in Weimar Germany through the analysis of selected cultural texts, both literary and film, characterized under the label ''New Objectivity''. The ''New Objectivity'' was characterized by a sober and unsentimental embrace of urban modernity, in contract to Expressionism''s horror of technology and belief in ''auratic'' art. This movement ...