Weimar through the Lens of Gender - 9780472117345

Weimar through the Lens of GenderProstitution Reform, Woman's Emancipation, and German Democracy, 1919-33\nAuthor(s): Julia Roos\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472117345, 978-0472117345\nSynopsis\n\""This book will make a valuable contribution to the field of German history, as well as the histories of gender and sexuality. The argument that Weimar feminism did bring about tangible gains for women needs to be made, and Roos has done so convincingly.\""\n---Julia Sneeringer, Queens College\n\nUntil 1927, Germany had a system of state-regulated prostitution, under which only those prostitutes who submitted to regular health checks and numerous other restrictions on their personal freedom were tolerated by the police. Male clients of prostitutes were not subject to any controls. The decriminalization of prostitution in 1927 resulted from important postwar gains in women's rights; yet th)