Kathleen Canning is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, Women's Studies, and German at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Languages of Labor and Gender: Female Factory Work in Germany, 1850-1914 (2nd ed., University of Michigan Press 2002) and Gender History in Practice: Historical Perspectives on Bodies, Class, and Citizenship (Cornell University Press 2006). She is currently a board member of Central European History and the Journal of Modern History.

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Preface

List of Contributors

Introduction
Kathleen Canning

PART I: DEFEAT AND THE LEGACY OF WAR

Chapter 1. The Return of the Undead: Weimar Cinema and the Great War
Anton Kaes

Chapter 2. The Work of Art and the Problem of Politics in Berlin Dada
Brigid Doherty

Chapter 3. The Secret History of Photomontage: on the Origins of the Composite Form and the Weimar Photomontages of Marianne Brandt
Elizabeth Otto

PART II: NEW CITIZENS/NEW SUBJECTIVITIES

Chapter 4. Mother, Citizens, and Consumers. Female Readers in Weimar Germany
Kerstin Barndt

Chapter 5. Claiming Citizenship: Suffrage and Subjectivity in Germany after the First World War
Kathleen Canning

Chapter 6. Feminist Politics beyond the Reichstag: A Radical Vision of Reform in the Weimar Republic
Kristin McGuire

Chapter 7. Producing Jews: Maternity, Eugenics, and the Embodiment of the Jewish Subject
Sharon Gillerman

PART III: SYMBOLS, RITUALS AND DISCOURSES OF DEMOCRACY

Chapter 8. Reforming the Reich: Democratic Symbols and Rituals in the Weimar Republic
Manuela Achilles

Chapter 9. High Expectations - Deep Disappointment: Structures of the Public Perception of Politics in the Weimar Republic
Thomas Mergel

Chapter 10. Contested Narratives of the Weimar Republic: The Case of the "Kutisker-Barmat Scandal"
Martin Geyer

Chapter 11. Political Violence, Contested Public Space, and Reasserted Masculinity in Weimar Germany
Dirk Schumann

PART IV: PUBLICS, PUBLICITY AND MASS CULTURE

Chapter 12. "A Self-Representation of the Masses": Siegfried Kracauer's Curious Americanism
Miriam Hansen

Chapter 13. Neither Masses Nor Individuals. Representations of the Collective in Inter-War German Culture
Stefan Jonsson

Chapter 14. Cultural Capital in Decline:Inflation and the Distress of Intellectuals
Bernd Widdig

PART V: WEIMAR TOPOGRAPHIES

Chapter 15. Defining the Nation in Crisis: Citizenship Policy in the Early Weimar Republic
Annemarie Sammartino

Chapter 16. Gender and Colonial Politics after the Versailles Treaty
Lora Wildenthal

Chapter 17. The Economy of Experience in Weimar Germany
Peter Fritzsche

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