Product Details Paperback Yale University Press Published 1994 From Publishers Weekly This acclaimed study was the first English-language book on Berlin Dada artist Hannah Hoch. Copyright 1994 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Synopsis The women of Weimar Germany had an uneasy alliance with modernity: while they experienced cultural liberation after World War I, these "New Women" still faced restrictions in their earning power, political participation, and reproductive freedom. Images of women in newspapers, films, magazines, and fine art of the 1920s, reflected their ambiguous social role, for the women who were pictured working in factories, wearing androgynous fashions, or enjoying urban nightlife seemed to be at once... read more |