Berlin Coquette — Smith Lamps and Women's Studies

and Women's Studies

Casselberry shows how the women negotiate this contradiction by using their work to produce and claim a spiritual authority that provides them with a particular form of power

Hedgeman's contributions transcend gender

She examines their methods of reviving and adapting traditional agrarian skills

Salmon Burger

Berlin Coquette — Smith Lamps and Women's StudiesBy Jill Suzanne Smith Associate Professor of German During the late nineteenth century the city of Berlin developed such a reputation for lawlessness and sexual licentiousness that it came to be known as the Whore of Babylon. Out of this reputation for debauchery grew an unusually rich discourse around prostitution. In Berlin Coquette, Jill Suzanne Smith shows how this discourse transcended the usual clichs about prostitutes and actually explored