The marketing of eros

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Impact of the Sexual Revolution of the 20th Century on literature, philosophy, film, fashion, journalism, ethics, gender ideologies, advertising, commodity culture, and popular entertainment. Rilke, Nietzsche, fashion and fin de siècle morphine narratives, showgirls and the New Woman, Weimar cabaret, Weimar women and advertising, renegotiating gender in the „Roaring Twenties“, the representation of working women in German journals from the turn of the century to the Third Reich, film criticism of H. D. and Adrienne Rich, European and Hollywood cinema.