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Berlin coquette : prostitution and the new German woman, 1890-1933
During the late nineteenth century the city of Berlin developed such a reputation for lawlessness and sexual licentiousness that it came to be known as the Whore of Babylon. Out of this reputation for debauchery grew an unusually rich discourse around prostitution. In Berlin Coquette , Jill Suzanne Smith shows how this discourse transcended the usual clichés about prostitutes and actually explored complex visions of alternative moralities or sexual countercultures including the “New Morality” articulated by feminist radicals, lesbian love, and the “New Woman.”
Combining extensive archival research with close readings of a broad spectrum of texts and images from the late Wilhelmine and Weimar periods, Smith recovers a surprising array of productive discussions about extramarital sexuality, women's financial autonomy, and respectability. She highlights in particular the figure of the cocotte ( Kokotte ), a specific type of prostitute who capitalized on the illusion of respectable or upstanding womanhood and therefore confounded easy categorization. By exploring the semantic connections between the figure of the cocotte and the act of flirtation (of being coquette ), Smith’s work presents flirtation as a type of social interaction through which both prostitutes and non-prostitutes in Imperial and Weimar Berlin could express extramarital sexual desire and agency.
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Policing Sex in Germany, 1882-1982: A Preliminary Statistical Analysis
In the past ten years, however, a growing chorus of researchers, at least in German history, has been arguing that the connection between totalitarian politics and the development of the socialregulatory functions of the modern state is, at the very least, complex.1 This essay seeks to contribute to this discussion by examining in some detail published statistical records on the policing of crimes against morality (a term that can serve as a useful shorthand for a range of forms of sexual assault, sexual and reproductive offenses, and offenses against public decency, defined below) in Germany between 1882 and 1982.2 Tracking the intensity and modulations of policing over this period promises to reveal something of the relationship(s) between political regime form and the modalities of social regulation.
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