Women and Modernity in Weimar Germany

"This book focuses on the popular fiction of Weimar Germany and explores the relationship between women, the texts they read, and the society in which they lived. A complex picture emerges that shows women taking center stage, not only in the fiction but also in the reality that shaped its fictional representations.

One of the author's conclusions is that it was the growing strength of female subjectivity, its strong positioning, and its insistent claim to visibility that occupied the imaginations and fears of Weimar culture and contributed in an important way to the crisis that afflicted the Weimar Republic."--BOOK JACKET.