SOURCE: "'Woman-Defender' and 'Woman-Offender', Peter Altenberg and Otto Weininger: Two Literary Stances vis-à-vis Bourgeois Culture in the Viennese 'Belle Epoque'," in Modern Austrian Literature, Vol. 20, No. 2, 1987, pp. 51-69.
In the following essay, Schoenberg discusses the social and psychic implications of the paradoxical images of women in late-nineteenth-century Viennese bourgeois culture and the contrasting viewpoints of Weininger and Peter Altenberg.
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