This essay focuses on Georg Simmel's analysis of prostitution as outlined in chapter five of ... more This essay focuses on Georg Simmel's analysis of prostitution as outlined in chapter five of Simmel's celebrated volume, The Philosophy of Money (first published in 1900). It explores how Simmel's analysis of prostitution differed from the more public debates concerning commodified female sexuality prevalent in Germany during this era and how it becomes a useful indicator of the way in which female prostitution figured within a melancholic discursive framework for German modernity at this time. Simmel's analysis of urban modernity, and its effects on the life of the individual city dweller, was consistently structured through the web of the money economy. Within discourses of German modernity, the most potent signifier for the concerns with the effects of money upon the life of modern individual was focused on the ubiquitous figure of the urban female prostitute. This essay explores Simmel's analysis of prostitution within the concept of Wergeld as well within th...
Berlin, the city of Bertolt Brecht, Marlene Dietrich, cabaret and German Expressionism, a city id... more Berlin, the city of Bertolt Brecht, Marlene Dietrich, cabaret and German Expressionism, a city identified with a female sexuality - at first alluring but then dangerous. In this fascinating study, Dorothy Rowe turns our attention to Berlin as a sexual landscape. She investigates ...
This essay focuses on Georg Simmel's analysis of prostitution as outlined in chapter five of ... more This essay focuses on Georg Simmel's analysis of prostitution as outlined in chapter five of Simmel's celebrated volume, The Philosophy of Money (first published in 1900). It explores how Simmel's analysis of prostitution differed from the more public debates concerning commodified female sexuality prevalent in Germany during this era and how it becomes a useful indicator of the way in which female prostitution figured within a melancholic discursive framework for German modernity at this time. Simmel's analysis of urban modernity, and its effects on the life of the individual city dweller, was consistently structured through the web of the money economy. Within discourses of German modernity, the most potent signifier for the concerns with the effects of money upon the life of modern individual was focused on the ubiquitous figure of the urban female prostitute. This essay explores Simmel's analysis of prostitution within the concept of Wergeld as well within th...
Berlin, the city of Bertolt Brecht, Marlene Dietrich, cabaret and German Expressionism, a city id... more Berlin, the city of Bertolt Brecht, Marlene Dietrich, cabaret and German Expressionism, a city identified with a female sexuality - at first alluring but then dangerous. In this fascinating study, Dorothy Rowe turns our attention to Berlin as a sexual landscape. She investigates ...
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