Berlin Coquette — Smith Lamps Salmon Burger

Salmon Burger

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

From Mega Molecules

co-director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art

and Women's Studies

Berlin Coquette — Smith Lamps Salmon BurgerBy 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