CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ILLUSTRATIONS vii
4. PREFACE ix
5. CONTRIBUTORS x
6. INTRODUCTION Weimar Subjects/Weimar Publics Rethinking the Political Culture of Germany in the 1920s 1
7. PART I Defeat and the Legacy of War
8. 1. The Return of the Undead: Weimar Cinema and the Great War 29
9. 2. The Work of Art and the Problem of Politics in Berlin Dada 42
10. 3. The Secret History of Photomontage: On the Origins of the Composite Form and the Weimar Photomontages of Marianne Brandt 66
11. Part II. New Citizens/New Subjectivities
12. 4. Mothers, Citizens, and Consumers: Female Readers in Weimar Germany 93
13. 5. Claiming Citizenship: Suffrage and Subjectivity in Germany after the First World War 116
14. 6. Feminist Politics beyond the Reichstag: Helene Stöcker and Visions of Reform 138
15. 7. Producing Jews: Maternity, Eugenics, and the Embodiment of the Jewish Subject 153
16. PART III Symbols, Rituals, and Discourses of Democracy
17. 8. Reforming the Reich: Democratic Symbols and Rituals in the Weimar Republic 173
18. 9. High Expectations—Deep Disappointment: Structures of the Public Perception of Politics in the Weimar Republic 192
19. 10. Contested Narratives of the Weimar Republic: Th e Case of the “Kutisker-Barmat Scandal” 211
20. 11. Political Violence, Contested Public Space, and Reasserted Masculinity in Weimar Germany 236
21. Part IV. Publics, Publicity, and Mass Culture
22. 12. “A Self-Representation of the Masses”: Siegfried Kracauer’s Curious Americanism 255
23. 13. Neither Masses nor Individuals: Representations of the Collective in Interwar German Culture 279
24. 14. Cultural Capital in Decline: Inflation and the Distress of Intellectuals 302
25. Part V: Weimar Topographies
26. 15. Defining the Nation in Crisis: Citizenship Policy in the Early Weimar Republic 319
27. 16. Gender and Colonial Politics after the Versailles Treaty 339
28. 17. The Economy of Experience in Weimar Germany 360
29. BIBLIOGRAPHY 383
30. INDEX 402