Table of Contents

Introduction - Christiane Schoenfeld
Prostitution, Free Love, and Marriage in German Drama in the 1890s - Karl Leydecker
Frank Wedekind's Prostitute: A Liberating Re-Creation or Male Recreation? - Stephanie Libbon
The "süßes Mädel" in Fin-de-Siècle and Modern Vienna - Brenda Keiser
The Representation of Prostitutes in Literature and Film: Margarete Böhme and G. W. Pabst - Margaret McCarthy
Sense and Sentimentality? Margarete Böhme's Tagebuch einer Verlorenen in Context - Anna Richards
Streetwalking the Metropolis: Prostitutes in Expressionism - Christiane Schoenfeld
Blonde Satan: Weimar Constructions of the Criminal Femme Fatale -
Women of the Street: Prostitution in Bertolt Brecht's Works - Paula Hanssen
The Genesis of "Jenny": Prostitute Songs, the Mythology of Pimps, and the Threepenny Opera - Alan Lareau
At a Moral Crossroads: Vom Leben getötet and the Regulation of Sexuality in the Weimar Republic - Ingrid E. Sharp

Reviews

An extremely useful as well as theoretically and historically acute account of the streetwalker in modern German film and literature.
*MONATSHEFTE*

It is the accomplishment of Commodities of Desire to demonstrate the manifold ways in which... contradictory roles -- as social outcast and as personfication of the capitalist system -- render the figure of the prostitute an ideal literary vehicle to critique the moral hypocrisy, class privilege, and gender inequality of modern German society.
*Gail Finney*

...a compelling read and a very welcome contribution to German literary studies.
*GERMAN QUARTERLY*