{"product_id":"weimar-through-the-lens-of-julia-roos-9780472117345","title":"Weimar Through the Lens of Gender: Prostitution Reform, Woman's Emancipation, and German Democracy, 1919-33","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This book will make a valuable contribution to the field of German history, as well as the histories of gender and sexuality. The argument that Weimar feminism did bring about tangible gains for women needs to be made, and Roos has done so convincingly.\"\u003cbr\u003e---Julia Sneeringer, Queens College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil 1927, Germany had a system of state-regulated prostitution, under which only those prostitutes who submitted to regular health checks and numerous other restrictions on their personal freedom were tolerated by the police. Male clients of prostitutes were not subject to any controls. The decriminalization of prostitution in 1927 resulted from important postwar gains in women's rights; yet this change---while welcomed by feminists, Social Democrats, and liberals--also mobilized powerful conservative resistance. In the early 1930s, the right-wing backlash against liberal gender reforms like the 1927 prostitution law played a fateful role in the downfall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Nazism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWeimar through the Lens of Gender\u003c\/i\u003e combines the political history of early twentieth-century Germany with analytical perspectives derived from the fields of gender studies and the history of sexuality. The book's argument will be of interest to a broad readership: specialists in the fields of gender studies and the history of sexuality, as well as historians and general readers interested in Weimar and Nazi Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulia Roos is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJacket art: \"Hamburg, vermutlich St. Pauli, 1920er-30er Jahre,\" photographer unknown, s\/w-Fotografie. (Courtesy of the Museum f? Hamburgische Geschichte.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Julia Roos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472117343\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472117345\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/18\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.20d","brand":"Julia Roos","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43919900147967,"sku":"9780472117345","price":79.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_1f180de8-d39d-4666-aa07-b6bda650741a.jpg?v=1680812529","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/weimar-through-the-lens-of-julia-roos-9780472117345","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}