Series
Volume 4
Modern German Studies
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Gender and Germanness
Cultural Productions of Nation
Edited by Patricia Herminghouse and Magda Mueller
336 pages, index
ISBN 978-1-57181-112-7 $145.00/£107.00 / Hb / Published (February 1998)
ISBN 978-1-57181-113-4 $34.95/£27.95 / Pb / Published (February 1998)
eISBN 978-1-78533-007-0 eBook
Reviews
"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
Description
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.
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.