Body by Weimar argues that male and female athletes fundamentally recast gender roles during Germany's turbulent post-World War I years and established the basis for a modern body and modern sensibility that remain with us to this day. In this innovative, eloquently written, and generally convincing book, Jensen sets out to show that Weimar-era discourses about sports shed new light on a range of major problems, from Germans' responses to the lost war and Versailles Treaty to conflicts over the demise of established patriarchal gender roles and the pre-war cultural pre-eminence of the educated bourgeoisie (Bildungsbuergertum) ... Jensen's exceptional skill at weaving different genres of sources into his narrative and his beautiful writing make the book a joy to read.