- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgements
- List of Maps, Tables, and Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- The German Revolution of 1918/19
- The Period of Inflation, 1919–1923
- Coalition-Building and Political Fragmentation, 1924–1930
- From Democracy to Dictatorship: The Fall of Weimar and the Nazi Rise to Power, 1930–1933
- The Weimar Constitution
- Nationalism and Nationhood
- Elections, Election Campaigns, and Democracy
- Federalism, Regionalism, and the Construction of Spaces
- The Reichswehr and Armament Policies
- Foreign Policy: The Dilemmas of a Revisionist State
- Republican Groups, Ideas, and Identities
- Social Policy in the Weimar Republic
- Liberalism
- Social Democrats and Communists in Weimar Germany: A Divided Working-Class Movement
- The Centre Party, Conservatives, and the Radical Right
- National Socialism
- Antisemitism in the Weimar Republic
- The Overstretched Economy: Industry and Financial Services
- The Middle Classes
- The Industrial Working Class
- Agriculture and Rural Society
- Weimar Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Reproduction
- Transnational Visions of Modernity: America and the Soviet Union
- German Jews in the Weimar Republic
- Youth and Youth Movements: Relations, Challenges, Developments
- Mass Culture
- German Literature, 1918–1933
- Architecture, Town Planning, and Large-Scale Housing Estates: Challenges, Visions, and Proposed Solutions
- Religious Cultures and Confessional Politics
- The Humanities and Social Sciences
- Visual Weimar: The Iconography of Social and Political Identities
- The Presence of the First World War in Weimar Culture
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
In the Weimar Republic, images were perceived to be as unreliable as they were powerful. They helped create and codify difference while simultaneously blurring lines within the categories of gender and race. Visual culture provided a wild playground for discourses about gender presentation and sexuality that encompassed veterans, athletes, criminals, the New Woman, and androgynous figures. Despite the growing prominence of images in race science, it was widely held that images could not be trusted to convey accurate information about race. The propagandistic use of images for political purposes had the potential to be equally ambiguous. It was ultimately up to the beholder to interpret the multiple meanings and symbolic potential of a given image.
Keywords: visual culture, art history, photography, photojournalism, film, gender, sexuality, racialized minorities, political figures
Kerry Wallach is Associate Professor of German Studies at Gettysburg College.
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- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgements
- List of Maps, Tables, and Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- The German Revolution of 1918/19
- The Period of Inflation, 1919–1923
- Coalition-Building and Political Fragmentation, 1924–1930
- From Democracy to Dictatorship: The Fall of Weimar and the Nazi Rise to Power, 1930–1933
- The Weimar Constitution
- Nationalism and Nationhood
- Elections, Election Campaigns, and Democracy
- Federalism, Regionalism, and the Construction of Spaces
- The Reichswehr and Armament Policies
- Foreign Policy: The Dilemmas of a Revisionist State
- Republican Groups, Ideas, and Identities
- Social Policy in the Weimar Republic
- Liberalism
- Social Democrats and Communists in Weimar Germany: A Divided Working-Class Movement
- The Centre Party, Conservatives, and the Radical Right
- National Socialism
- Antisemitism in the Weimar Republic
- The Overstretched Economy: Industry and Financial Services
- The Middle Classes
- The Industrial Working Class
- Agriculture and Rural Society
- Weimar Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Reproduction
- Transnational Visions of Modernity: America and the Soviet Union
- German Jews in the Weimar Republic
- Youth and Youth Movements: Relations, Challenges, Developments
- Mass Culture
- German Literature, 1918–1933
- Architecture, Town Planning, and Large-Scale Housing Estates: Challenges, Visions, and Proposed Solutions
- Religious Cultures and Confessional Politics
- The Humanities and Social Sciences
- Visual Weimar: The Iconography of Social and Political Identities
- The Presence of the First World War in Weimar Culture
- Index
