Making Bodies, Making History: Feminism and German Identity"This is important, original work that will have a significant and lasting impact on the intersecting fields of German studies and feminist theory and criticism. It has the potential to shift feminist criticism and German cultural studies into new directions." -Biddy Martin, author of Woman and Modernity. |
Contents
Of Bodies Secrets and | 1 |
Anne Dudens Übergang | 37 |
Brief an einen islamischen Bruder | 57 |
Jeannette Landers | 87 |
Conclusion | 125 |
Works Cited | 169 |
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aesthetic African American Afro-German Alcoff analysis argues Asar Asar's chapter cited Cixous concept construction contemporary German contemporary West German Critique darkness discourse discussion dominant Duden's embodiment ence essay ethnicity experience female body feminism feminist aesthetics feminist theory function German context German culture German history German literature German Studies Geschichte Heller's heterogeneity human body identity politics imbricated Iran Islam Itke Itke's Jewish Jews Jimmie Lee Judaism Kovsky Kovsky's kynic Lander's Lauretis Lauretis's literary male Martin material means minstrel shows Mohanty Muslim narrative narrator Nazi Negt and Kluge notion novel oppression Oskar Negt particular past Plaskow posi position positionality postmodernism poststructuralist postwar present protagonist questions race racial racist reading relations relationship representation Scarry semiosis sense sexual shift signification Sloterdijk social speak specific Spelman structures subjective agency textual Third Reich Third World tion tional TORKAN torture Tufan victim Weigel West German Western woman women writing Yiddish