About this title: In a book that confronts our society's obsession with sexual violence, Maria Tatar seeks the meaning behind one of the most disturbing images of twentieth-century Western culture: the violated female corpse. This image is so prevalent in painting, literature, film, and, most recently, in mass media, that we rarely question what is at stake in its ...
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Edition: Reprint
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780691015903ISBN:0691015902
Description: Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Tight, clean copy. "In a book that confronts our society's obsession with sexual violence, Maria Tatar seeks the meaning behind one of the most disturbing images of twentieth-century Western culture: the violated female corpse. This image is so prevalent in painting, literature, film, and, most recently, in mass media, that we rarely question what is at stake in its representation. Tatar, however, challenges us to consider what is taking place--both artistically and ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780691043388ISBN:0691043388
Description: New in New jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. In a book that confronts our society's obsession with sexual violence, Maria Tatar seeks the meaning behind one of the most disturbing images of twentieth-century Western culture: the violated female corpse. This image is so prevalent in painting, literature, film, and, most recently, in mass media, that we rarely question what is at stake in its representation. Tatar, however, challenges us to consider what is taking place, both artistically and ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780691043388ISBN:0691043388
Description: New in New jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. In a book that confronts our society's obsession with sexual violence, Maria Tatar seeks the meaning behind one of the most disturbing images of twentieth-century Western culture: the violated female corpse. This image is so prevalent in painting, literature, film, and, most recently, in mass media, that we rarely question what is at stake in its representation. Tatar, however, challenges us to consider what is taking place, both artistically and ... read more
Edition: First edition. Fiirst printing [stated].
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780691043388ISBN:0691043388
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. xii, 213 p. Illustrations. Notes. Index. In a book that confronts our society's obsession with violence, Maria Tatar seeks the meaning behind one of the most disturbing images of twentieth-century Western culture: the violated female corpse. This image is so prevalent in painting, literature, film, and, most recently, in mass media, that we rarely question what is at stake in its representation. Tatar, however, challenges us to consider what is taking place ... read more
Binding: orig. cloth
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton
Date Published: (1995)
Description: Textual photo illustrations. Minor rubbing. Some faint spots to spine. VG. 24x15cm, xii, 213 pp. Contents: Sexual Murder: Weimar Germany & Its Cultural Legacy: Morbid Curiosity: Why 'Lustmord'? ; "Ask Mother": The Construction of Sexual Murder; Crime, Contagion & Containment: Sexual Murder in the Weimar Republic; Case Studies: Fighting for Life: Figurations of War, Women, & the City in the Work of Otto Dix; Life in the Combat Zone: Military & Sexual Anxieties in the Work of George Grosz; The ... read more
Edition: First Paperback Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press, NJ
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780691015903ISBN:0691015902
Description: Very Good+ paperback. Pages and text are clean and bright. Numerous b&w illustrations. Light edge wear to the exterior, though no chips or tears. An attractive copy. 213 pp. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780691043388ISBN:0691043388
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. As new in like DJ. No damage noted of any kind. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 213 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIV PR
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780691015903ISBN:0691015902
Description: New. "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. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780691015903ISBN:0691015902
Description: New. Confronting our society's obsession with sexual violence, this work seeks the meaning behind one of the most disturbing images of twentieth-century Western culture: the violated female corpse. It focuses on the politically turbulent Weimar Republic, o... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN-13:9780691015903ISBN:0691015902
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