Women and Gender in German Studies – serie
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22 produkter
Memoirs of Ceija Stojka, Child Survivor of the Romani Holocaust
Av Ceija Stojka
Häftad, 2027
377 kr
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First English translation of the memoirs of Austrian Romani Holocaust survivor, writer, visual artist, musician, and activist Ceija Stojka (1933-2013), along with poems, an interview, historical photos, and reproductions of her artworks."Is this the whole world?" This question begins the first of …
Women and National Socialism in Postwar German Literature
Gender, Memory, and Subjectivity
Inbunden, 2017
1440 kr
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Investigates why the question of women's complicity in National Socialism has struggled to capture the collective imagination, examining how a variety of female authors have conceptualized the role of women in the Third ReichIn recent years, historians have revealed the many ways in which German …
Willful Girls
Gender and Agency in Contemporary Anglo-American and German Fiction
Inbunden, 2018
1440 kr
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Explores the process of "becoming woman" through an analysis of the depiction of girls and young women in contemporary Anglo-American and German literary texts.What does it mean to "become woman" in the context of neoliberalism and postfeminism? What is the role of will in this process? Willful …
Realities and Fantasies of German Female Leadership
From Maria Antonia of Saxony to Angela Merkel
Av Elisabeth Krimmer, Patricia Anne Simpson
Inbunden, 2019
2186 kr
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A collection of essays achieving a deeper understanding of the historical roots and theoretical assumptions that inform the realities and fantasies of German female leadership.The Western tradition of excluding women from leadership and disparaging their ability to lead has persisted for centuries, …
Tender Gaze
Compassionate Encounters on the German Screen, Page, and Stage
Av Muriel Cormican, Jennifer Marston William
Inbunden, 2021
1317 kr
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By exploring the concept of the "tender gaze" in German film, theater, and literature, this volume's contributors illustrate how perspective-taking in works of art fosters empathy and prosocial behaviors.The gaze, understood as a way of looking at others that involves contemplation and the …
Writing the Self, Creating Community
German Women Authors and the Literary Sphere, 1750-1850
Av Elisabeth Krimmer, Lauren Nossett
Inbunden, 2020
1502 kr
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This volume examines the world of German women writers who emerged in the burgeoning literary marketplace of eighteenth-century Europe.Beginning in the 1770s, the German literary market experienced unprecedented growth. The enormous demand for reading materials that stimulated this burgeoning …
Great Books by German Women in the Age of Emotion, 1770-1820
Inbunden, 2022
1502 kr
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Emphasizing the role of and portrayal of emotion, this study argues for the inclusion of six late-eighteenth-century German-language novels by and about women in a revised canon.Literature written by women in German during the "Age of Goethe" was largely considered unworthy Trivialliteratur. Using …
Anneliese's House
Av Lou Andreas-Salomé, Frank Beck
Inbunden, 2021
1502 kr
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The first English translation of a presciently modern portrayal of emerging feminist sensibilities in a nineteenth-century family, by one of Germany's leading pre-First World War writers.Best known now for her involvement with Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud, Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861-1937) first became …
Grete Meisel-Hess
The New Woman and the Sexual Crisis
Inbunden, 2022
1502 kr
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This first book in English on Meisel-Hess, an early feminist voice in modernist discourse, illustrates the dynamic interplay between gender, sexuality, and race/ethnicity in Austrian and German modernism.Grete Meisel-Hess (1879-1922), a contemporary of Freud, Schnitzler, and Klimt, was a feminist …
Memoirs of Ceija Stojka, Child Survivor of the Romani Holocaust
Av Ceija Stojka, Lorely E. French m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1386 kr
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First English translation of the memoirs of Austrian Romani Holocaust survivor, writer, visual artist, musician, and activist Ceija Stojka (1933-2013), along with poems, an interview, historical photos, and reproductions of her artworks."Is this the whole world?" This question begins the first of …
Plants, Places, and Power
Toward Social and Ecological Justice in German Literature and Film
Av Maria Stehle
Inbunden, 2023
1427 kr
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Examines portrayals of plants and landscapes in recent German novels and films, addressing the contemporary forms of racism, nationalism, and social and ecological injustice that they expose.Plants, Places, and Power is a study of plants and landscapes in and beyond contemporary German-language …
Imaginaries of Domesticity and Women’s Work in Germany around 1800
Inbunden, 2023
1302 kr
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Examines a variety of texts from late Enlightenment Germany to provide a nuanced rethinking of women's roles as wives, mothers, and housekeepers, creators of the cultural spaces of the home.Domesticity, a set of practices, emotions, and values culminating in a nourishing emotional and physical …
German #MeToo
Rape Cultures and Resistance, 1770-2020
Av Elisabeth Krimmer, Patricia Anne Simpson
Inbunden, 2022
1950 kr
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This volume of new essays represents a collective, academic, and activist effort to interpret German literature and culture in the context of the international #MeToo movement, illustrating and interrogating the ways that "rape cultures" persist.Responding to the worldwide impact of the #MeToo …
Elsa Asenijeff’s Is That Love? and Innocence
A Voice Reclaimed
Av Elsa Asenijeff, Eva Hoffmann m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1302 kr
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First English translations of two early feminist short-story collections, shedding light on the "woman question" at the turn of the 20th century and relating to today's #MeToo movement.This edition provides the first English translations of two short-story collections - Is That Love? (1896) and …
Realities and Fantasies of German Female Leadership
From Maria Antonia of Saxony to Angela Merkel
Av Elisabeth Krimmer, Patricia Anne Simpson
Häftad, 2023
450 kr
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A collection of essays achieving a deeper understanding of the historical roots and theoretical assumptions that inform the realities and fantasies of German female leadership.The Western tradition of excluding women from leadership and disparaging their ability to lead has persisted for centuries, …
Anneliese's House
Av Lou Andreas-Salomé, Frank Beck m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
434 kr
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The first English translation of a presciently modern portrayal of emerging feminist sensibilities in a nineteenth-century family, by one of Germany's leading pre-First World War writers.Best known now for her involvement with Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud, Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861-1937) first became …
Modeling Motherhood in Weimar Germany
Political and Psychological Discourses in Women’s Writing
Inbunden, 2023
1427 kr
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Reveals how socialist discourses and psychoanalytic ideas shaped the modern models of motherhood envisioned by left-wing and socially critical women writers working in the Weimar press and literary spheres.Women's experiences and opportunities in the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) were shaped by …
Women, Religion, and Emotions in Modern Germany and Beyond
Av Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker, Martina Martina Cucchiara
Inbunden, 2025
1306 kr
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Analyzes the role of emotions in the religious lives of women from across Germany and Europe from the nineteenth century to the 1970s.Scholarship on women and religion has focused primarily on the intersection between women's religious engagement and their emancipation. This volume goes beyond that …
Mathilde Möhring
Inbunden, 2023
755 kr
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The first English translation of Fontane's late, posthumously published novel, featuring the eponymous, complex heroine and confronting issues regarding gender roles and marriage that still resonate today.Theodor Fontane hesitated to publish his late novel Mathilde Möhring because he believed it …
Feminist Anger in German-Language Cultural Production
Responses to Racism, Misogyny, and Other Injustice
Av Julia K. Gruber, Regina Range
Inbunden, 2025
1427 kr
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Essays by feminist scholars of German Studies looking at how women-particularly women of color-have put their anger to use in German-language cultural production and how they themselves might do so in their scholarship.In Germany and in Western culture more broadly, women experience anger in …
Gender, Genre, and the Evolution of Memory
Insights from Postwar German Literature, 1945-2015
Inbunden, 2026
1278 kr
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Shows how genre links gender and memory in German "mother books" and contends that recent changes in German memory culture reflect a gendered shift as much as a generational one.To an extraordinary degree, German literary memoirs and novels published since the Second World War have struggled with …
Most Penetrating Mind in the Mendelssohn Family
Rebecka Dirichlet’s Letters from Göttingen, 1855–58
Av Judith Knott
Inbunden, 2027
1317 kr
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A selection, in English translation, of 100 illuminating and entertaining letters by a woman often relegated to the background of her famous family but worthy of attention in her own right.Rebecka Dirichlet (née Mendelssohn, 1811-58) is often referred to in passing as the younger sister of …
