Gender and Germanness

Patricia Herminghouse teaches in the Department of Modern Languages and Culture at the University of Rochester.

"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

• Introduction: Looking for GermaniaPART I: EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURYChapter 1. The Beautiful, the Ugly, and the German: Race, Gender and Nationality in Eighteenth-Century Anthropological DiscourseSusanne ZantopChapter 2. Sophie La Roche as a German PatriotHelga S. WattChapter 3. Romantic Nationalism: Achim von Arnim’s Gypsy Princess IsabellaSara FriedrichsmeyerChapter 4. How to Think about Germany: Nationality, Gender, and Obsession in Heine’s “Night Thoughts”Russell A. BermanChapter 5. The Fatherland’s Kiss of Death: Gender and Germany in Nineteenth-Century Historical FictionBrent O. PetersonPART II: RETHINKING HISTORY AND CANONSChapter 6. The Challenge of “Missing Contents” for Canon Formation in German StudiesElke FrederiksenChapter 7. Feminism and Motherhood in Germany and in International Perspective 1800-1914Ann Taylor AllenChapter 8. “Truly Womanly” and “Truly German”: Women’s Rights and National Identity in Die FrauStefana LefkoChapter 9. The Ladies’ Auxiliary of German Literature: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and the Quest for a National Literary HistoryPatricia Herminghouse PART III: VISUAL CULTUREChapter 10. En-Gendering Mass Culture: The Case of Zarah LeanderLutz P. KoepnickChapter 11. Nazism as Femme Fatale: Recuperations of Cinematic Masculinity in Postwar BerlinBarton BygChapter 12. Visualizing the Nation: Madonnas and Mourning Mothers in Postwar GermanyMariatte C. DenmanChapter 13. Framing the Unheimlich: Heimatfilm and BambiIngeborg Majer O’SickeyChapter 14.Rape, Nation, and Remembering History: Helke Sander’s Liberators Take LibertiesBarbara KostaPART IV: GERMANY AND HER “OTHERS”Chapter 15. “Germany is Full of Germans Now”: Germanness in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy and ChantalAckerman’s Meetings with AnnaBarbara MennelChapter 16. Bodies for Germany, Bodies for Socialism: The German Democratic Republic Devises a Gay (Male) BodyDenis SweetChapter 17. Patterns of Consciousness and Cycles of Self-Destruction: Nation, Ethnicity, and Gender in Herta Müller’s ProseKarin BauerChapter 18. Germania Displaced? Reflections on the Discourses of Female Asylum Seekers and Ethnic GermansMagda MuellerChapter 19. GERMANIA – Just a Male Construction? Gender, Germanness, and Feminism in East German WomenWritersEva KaufmannChapter 20. The Price of Feminism: Of Women and TurksLeslie AdelsonPART V: FATHERLAND AND MOTHER TONGUEChapter 21. Language is Publicity for Men – but enough is enough!Luise PuschChapter 22. The New Duden: Out of Date Already?Luise PuschContributorsIndex