Commodities of Desire

Introduction - Christiane Schoenfeld Prostitution, Free Love, and Marriage in German Drama in the 1890s - Karl Leydecker Frank Wedekind's Prostitute: A Liberating Re-Creation or Male Recreation? - Stephanie Libbon The "süßes Mädel" in Fin-de-Siècle and Modern Vienna - Brenda Keiser The Representation of Prostitutes in Literature and Film: Margarete Böhme and G. W. Pabst - Margaret McCarthy Sense and Sentimentality? Margarete Böhme's Tagebuch einer Verlorenen in Context - Anna Richards Streetwalking the Metropolis: Prostitutes in Expressionism - Christiane Schoenfeld Blonde Satan: Weimar Constructions of the Criminal Femme Fatale - Women of the Street: Prostitution in Bertolt Brecht's Works - Paula Hanssen The Genesis of "Jenny": Prostitute Songs, the Mythology of Pimps, and the Threepenny Opera - Alan Lareau At a Moral Crossroads: Vom Leben getötet and the Regulation of Sexuality in the Weimar Republic - Ingrid E. Sharp