Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany Paperback / softback - 1997
by Maria Tatar
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- Paperback
In a book that confronts our society's obsession with sexual violence and the image of the violated female corpse in our collective consciousness, Harvard culturist Maria Tatar examines images of sexual murder and studies how art and murder have intersected in sexual culture from Weimar Germany to the present. 44 photos.
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- Title Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany
- Author Maria Tatar
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 213
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton
- Date 1997-05-25
- Features Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780691015903
- ISBN 9780691015903 / 0691015902
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 9.24 x 6.08 x 0.68 in (23.47 x 15.44 x 1.73 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Central Europe
- Cultural Region: Germany
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Murder in literature, Sex crimes - Germany - History - 20th century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94048601
- Dewey Decimal Code 364.152
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From the rear cover
"Taking the representation of sexually motivated murder (Lustmord) as a site where questions of gender, social order, and culture converge, Maria Tatar demonstrates the symptomatic social and cultural importance of sex crimes in pre-Hitler Germany. She successfully weaves historical facts (the murders that happened) and their artistic representations into a fascinating new story that emphasizes the dark and suppressed side of Weimar culture. This story has amazingly far-reaching consequences not only for legal and sociological discussions, but also for considerations of gender relations, social control, modernity, and urban pathology in general."--Anton Kaes, University of California, Berkeley
"Maria Tatar's book on the culture of serial murder in Weimar Germany breaks new ground in interdisciplinary studies. An important book for all who are interested in the nightside of Weimar. A must book for art historians and literary and cultural historians."--Sander Gilman, University of Chicago
"Maria Tatar has written a compelling book about Weimar's obsessions: sexual psychopaths, serial murder, homosocial desire, and violence toward women. We have come to understand the crisis of male identities after the lost war as a breeding ground for German fascism, but Lustmord raises fascinating new questions about the relationship between the trauma of warfare and a sexualized imaginary of violence and mutilation that haunted Weimar art, literature, and film. A major contribution to cultural studies."--Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University
"Maria Tatar offers a compelling illumination of Weimar culture's fascination with sexual murder, as this produced visual and narrative representations that turn the criminal perpetrator into a cultural hero while the victim--usually feminine--is eclipsed. With an unflinching eye she astutely negotiates the duplicity of aversion and attraction that representations of violence elicit. Her stunning analysis keeps returning to the fluid boundaries between real-life murderers and their cultural renditions, forcing the reader continually to address his or her own complicity with fantasies of violence."--Elisabeth Bronfen, University of Zurich
