Lustmord

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LUSTMORD
SEXUAL MURDER IN WEIMAR GERMANY Maria Tatar
In a book that confronts our society's obsession with sexual violence, Maria Tatar examines images of sexual murder (Lustmord), and produces a riveting study of how art and murder have intersected in the sexual politics of culture from Weimar Germany to the present.
"A compelling chronide of Weimar Germany's disturbing and pervasive fascination with the sexually motivated murder of women, Lustmord breaks new ground in our understanding of German art and culture during this turbulent period between the two world wars. What is most impressive about Ltistmord is the way in which it manages to open up Weimar culture to new, feminist interpretation without simultaneously diminishing the difiFerences between the present and the past. Tatar has written a brilliant book of art and cultural criticism, a book that scholars and theorists of the Weimar period will have to contend with for some years to... Tovább

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CULTURAL STUDIES/GENDER STUDIES
LUSTMORD
SEXUAL MURDER IN WEIMAR GERMANY Maria Tatar
In a book that confronts our society's obsession with sexual violence, Maria Tatar examines images of sexual murder (Lustmord), and produces a riveting study of how art and murder have intersected in the sexual politics of culture from Weimar Germany to the present.
"A compelling chronide of Weimar Germany's disturbing and pervasive fascination with the sexually motivated murder of women, Lustmord breaks new ground in our understanding of German art and culture during this turbulent period between the two world wars. What is most impressive about Ltistmord is the way in which it manages to open up Weimar culture to new, feminist interpretation without simultaneously diminishing the difiFerences between the present and the past. Tatar has written a brilliant book of art and cultural criticism, a book that scholars and theorists of the Weimar period will have to contend with for some years to come."
—Patrice Petro, Art in America
"Few other studies of the Weimar culture so dearly coimect the aesthetics of Weimar with gender and the experience of World War I Tatar's book is particularly relevant toda^ amid the heated debates over violence, even as the images become more brutal and sensational, and the camera more voyeuristic and merciless."
—Barbara Kosta, The Women's Review of Books
"A profound and provocative contribution to our understanding of sexual combat and the aesthetidzation of violence in modem culture."
—Leslie Kitchen, The Bloomsbury Review
Maria Tatar teaches courses in cultural smdies and folklore at Harvard University, where she is Professor of German Studies. She is the author of Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood, The Hard Facts of the Grimm's Fairy Tales, and Spellbound: Mesmerism and Literature, all published by Princeton University Press.
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CoveriUustration: George Croszjohn, theLady-mer {John, derFrauenmiirder, 1918). Courtesy of Hamburger Kunsthalle; photo by Elke Walfoid Vissza