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Gender and Germanness

Gender and Germanness

Patricia Herminghouse | Magda Mueller

(1998)

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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
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