Lustmord : sexual murder in Weimar Germany / Maria Tatar.

  • Tatar, Maria, 1945-
Date:
[1995], ©1995
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Publication/Creation

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1995], ©1995.

Physical description

xii, 213 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographic references (p. [185]-208) and index

Contents

Morbid curiosity: why Lustmord? -- "Ask mother": the construction of sexual murder -- Crime, contagion, and containment: sexual murder in the Weimar republic -- Fighting for life: figurations of war, women, and the city in the work of Otto Dix -- Life in the combat zone: military and sexual anxieties in the work of George Grosz -- The Corpse vanishes: gender, violence, and agency in Alfred Doblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz -- The killer as victim: Fritz Lang's M -- Reinventions: murder in the name of art.

Notes

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: CMB

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    KM.37.AA9
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 0691043388