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Abstract
Cultural Studies have been preoccupied with questions of national identity and cultural representations. At the same time, feminist studies have insisted upon the entanglement of gender with issues of nation, class, and ethnicity. Developments in the wake of German unification demand a reassessment of the nexus of gender, Germanness and nationhood. The contributors to this volume pursue these strands of the cultural debate in German history, literature, visual arts, and language over a period of three hundred years in sections devoted to History and the Canon, Visual Culture, Germany and Her "Others," and Language and Power.
Contributors: L. Adelson, A. Taylor Allen, K. Bauer, R. Berman, B. Byg, M. Denman, E. Frederiksen, S. Friedrichsmeyer, E. Kaufmann, L. Koepnick, B. Kosta, S. Lefko, A. M.O'Sickey, B. Mennel, H. M. Müller, B. Peterson, L. Pusch, D. Sweet, H. Watt, S. Zantop.
"This fascinating and informative collection of twenty-two mostly original essays showcases feminist German Studies at its finest ... Decentering Germany in our own scholarly work will help us to further challenge the settled definitions of gender and Germanness which this volume so splendidly details." · Women in German
Patricia Herminghouse teaches in the Department of Modern Languages and Culture at the University of Rochester.
Magda Mueller in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at California State University, Chico.
Table of Contents
Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
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Gender and Germanness | iii | ||
Copyright | iv | ||
Contents | iv | ||
Introduction. Looking for Germania | 1 | ||
Part I. Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century | 19 | ||
Chapter 1. The Beautiful, The Ugly, and the German | 21 | ||
Chapter 2. Sophie La Roche as a German Patriot | 36 | ||
Chapter 3. Romantic Nationalism | 51 | ||
Chapter 4. How to Think about Germany | 66 | ||
Chapter 5. The Fatherland's Kiss of Death | 82 | ||
Part II. Rethinking History and Canons | 99 | ||
Chapter 6. The Challenge of \"Missing Contents\" for Canon Formation in German Studies | 101 | ||
Chapter 7. Feminism and Motherhood in Germany and in International Perspective 1800-1914 | 113 | ||
Chapter 8. \"Truly Womanly\" and \"Truly German | 129 | ||
Chapter 9. The Ladies' Auxiliary of German Literature | 145 | ||
Part III. Visual Culture | 159 | ||
Chapter 10. En-Gendering Mass Culture | 161 | ||
Chapter 11. Nazism as Femme Fatale | 176 | ||
Chapter 12. Visualizing the Nation | 189 | ||
Chapter 13. Framing the Unheimlich | 202 | ||
Chapter 14. Rape, Nation and Remembering History | 217 | ||
Part IV. Germany and Her \"Others | 233 | ||
Chapter 15. \"Germany is Full of Germans Now | 235 | ||
Chapter 16. Bodies for Germany, Bodies for Socialism | 248 | ||
Chapter 17. Patterns of Conscioiusness and Cycles of Self-Destruction | 263 | ||
Chapter 18. Germania Displaced? | 276 | ||
Chapter 19. Germania - Just a Male Construction? | 290 | ||
Chapter 20. The Price of Feminism | 305 | ||
Part V. Fatherland and Mother Tongue | 321 | ||
Chapter 21. Language is Publicity for Men - but Enough is Enough! | 323 | ||
Chapter 22. The New Duden | 327 | ||
Contributors | 331 |