Women, Gender and Sexuality in German Literature and Culture – serie
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15 produkter
Representations of Muslim Women in German Popular Culture, 1990–2015
Av Lauren Selfe
Häftad, 2019
910 kr
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The figure of the «Muslim» woman or girl performs a crucial role in far-reaching socio-political debates in Germany. Indeed, such figures challenge the boundaries of gender equality and secularism and contest notions of tolerance and integration. The (in)visibility of Muslim women’s bodies and …
Writing Lives
A Female German Jewish Perspective on the Early Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2019
824 kr
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This book introduces the works of a German Jewish female author and provides a detailed analysis of the early twentieth century as she witnessed it. Although a prolific writer and leader in the women’s movement, Clementine Krämer (1873–1942) is relatively unknown today. Krämer’s life and works …
Black Magic Woman
Gender and the Occult in Weimar Germany
Häftad, 2021
649 kr
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This book is a study of women’s involvement in occult practices in Weimar Germany. Women during the Weimar period experienced an unprecedented level of liberation. This included a greatly increased role in the work force as well as participation in other realms that were traditionally the province …
Embodied Realities
Tracing Multitudes in Germanophone Feminist and Queer Literature, Film, and Art
Häftad, 2026
673 kr
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In the last decade, critical Germanophone cultural productions have led a feminist and/or queer resistance against the rise of conservative politics. Embodied Realities offers an overview of recent queer, feminist, and intersectional debates across literature, film, performing arts, and the history …
Domesticating the Public
Women’s Discourse on Gender Roles in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Häftad, 2011
674 kr
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The domestic sphere, the ideological as well as physical context of female life during the nineteenth century, featured prominently in German women’s writing of the period. Women writers, such as Fanny Lewald, Ida von Hahn-Hahn and E. Marlitt, who had begun to dominate Germany’s book market, …
Discovering Women’s History
German-Speaking Journalists (1900–1950)
Häftad, 2014
1167 kr
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Discovering Women’s History brings to light the work of a selection of German-speaking women journalists from the first half of the twentieth century who made significant contributions to German life and culture, yet are barely known today. The volume builds upon scholarship on women and culture by …
Playing House
Motherhood, Intimacy, and Domestic Spaces in Julia Franck’s Fiction
Häftad, 2012
703 kr
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Julia Franck, winner of the 2007 German Book Prize for Die Mittagsfrau (The Blind Side of the Heart), puts the experience of women – and mothers – at the core of her novels and short stories. This study, the first book exclusively about Franck, addresses the various roles that women play in her …
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Eva Strittmatters Poetik
Häftad, 2013
920 kr
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Mit diesem Band erscheint die erste umfassende und kritische Auseinandersetzung mit dem veröffentlichten Werk von Eva Strittmatter (1930-2011), populäre Dichterin und Briefautorin in der ehemaligen DDR. Die Studie zeigt die Entwicklung Strittmatters als Dichterin und die zunehmend theoretische …
Popular Fiction in the Age of Bismarck
E. Marlitt and her Narrative Strategies
Av Terry May, Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly
Häftad, 2014
867 kr
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E. Marlitt was a bestselling author of the late nineteenth century whose romance novels dominated the German literary market between 1865 and 1888. Her novels appeared in thirty languages, with as many as five different English translations circulating simultaneously in the United States alone. …
Political Woman in Print
German Women’s Writing 1845–1919
Av Birgit Mikus
Häftad, 2014
875 kr
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This book analyses the depiction and function of politically active women in novels by six female authors from the margins of the democratic revolution of 1848 and the first German women’s movement: Louise Aston, Malwida von Meysenbug, Mathilde Franziska Anneke, Fanny Lewald, Louise Otto-Peters, …
Anna Haag and her Secret Diary of the Second World War
A Democratic German Feminist’s Response to the Catastrophe of National Socialism
Av Edward Timms
Häftad, 2016
837 kr
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How was it possible for a well-educated nation to support a regime that made it a crime to think for yourself? This was the key question for the Stuttgart-based author Anna Haag (1888–1982), the democratic feminist whose anti-Nazi diaries are analysed in this book. Like Victor Klemperer, she …
Luise Buechner
A Nineteenth-Century Evolutionary Feminist
Av Cordelia Scharpf, Peter D. G. Brown
Häftad, 2008
1188 kr
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This first book-length biography with discussions of select writings by Luise Büchner (1821-1877) draws on her commentary of events available in letters and writings. A close reading of Büchner’s fictional writings reveals that she both entertained and educated her readers. Her pedagogical messages …
Enlightened Reactions
Emancipation, Gender, and Race in German Women’s Writing
Häftad, 2011
688 kr
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This book investigates a central contradiction in the Enlightenment thinking of emancipatory German women’s writing of the nineteenth century. Ida von Hahn-Hahn, Fanny Lewald, and Ottilie Assing wrote passionate arguments in favor of the emancipation of women, Jews, and blacks, promoting …
Luise Buechner
Eine Evolutionaere Frauenrechtlerin Des 19. Jahrhunderts
Av Cordelia Scharpf, Peter D G Brown
Häftad, 2013
988 kr
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Diese erste ausführliche deutschsprachige Monographie über Luise Büchner (1821-1877) aus Darmstadt stellt ihr Leben und Werk dar als Autorin, vielseitige Aktivistin in der ersten bürgerlichen Frauenbewegung und Mitinitiatorin mehrerer Maßnahmen zur besseren Bildung, beruflichen Ausbildung und …
Virtuous Victim or Sexual Predator?
The Representation of the Widow in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century German Fiction
Av Abigail Dunn, Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly
Häftad, 2013
674 kr
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‘Was ist eine Witwe mehr als … ein aufgewärmtes Essen?’ According to politician and statesman Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel (1741-1796), widows were superfluous beings and second-hand goods, but they were also perceived by theologians and moralists of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a …
