Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February Abstract: Chapter 3 takes up a central paradox of financial markets. While market participants were almost entirely male, financial activity is historically associated with the feminine. In the established discourse on Weimar cinema, women are usually discussed in terms of their role as objects rather than active agents of financial exchange.
However, a close examination of the depiction of women speculators reveals a more complex picture. Public and private space in Wilhelmine Germany and continuing into the Weimar years was highly gendered, and characterized by a doctrine of separate spheres, with men taking an active role in public space, and women largely confined to the domestic sphere of the family.
In popular media, however, it was manifested as a much more urgent phenomenon, creating the impression of violent rupture in traditional gender roles. Find out more about saving to your Kindle. Note you can select to save to either the free.
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