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Abstract: In summer 2022, as we were wrapping up this issue, we noticed that we and many of our colleagues have expressed a feeling of deep and utter exhaustion. That isn't entirely new, but the pervasiveness and intensity of this feeling is striking. At the same time, we continue to face issues that present the need for urgent action: climate justice, struggles for racial justice, decolonial struggles, war (not only in Ukraine) and its resulting displacement, the continued attacks on trans people and trans rights, and the consequences of the Supreme Court decisions handed down in June—and the overturning of Roe v. Wade is by no means the only decision that should generate feminist responses. The impacts of the COVID-19 ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Emilie Fitzallen's impassioned lamentation at the end of Charlotte von Stein's Die zwey Emilien (1803; The two Emilies), "Never have women stood in the place where they belong, neither according to nature nor according to the social contract," points to a paradox of place for woman.1 She is forever the object of a physical Verstellung, put in the wrong place, misplaced, displaced, often replaced. At the same time, she is also forever the object of a verbal Verstellung, still put in the wrong place, but now as the object of dissimulation. Here, she is fashioned at one extreme or the other, as an "innocent angel" or as a "wicked creature."2 In Stein's drama, the cruelty of dissimulation begets a violence of ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: After its release on 6 October 1978, the young-adult film Sieben Sommersprossen (1978; Seven freckles) became a box-office success, both nationally—in the German Democratic Republic (GDR)—and internationally.1 In an internal report by the official GDR film studio DEFA (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft), it was labeled "one of the most beautiful DEFA films."2 Directed by Herrmann Zschoche, who was behind seventeen GDR feature films between 1961 and 1989, and with a script jointly developed by Zschoche and Christa Kožik, this feature film attracted more than one million viewers in the GDR in its first year of screening, primarily young adults, and was also shown in several other socialist and capitalist countries ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: "Sometimes something happens, and we all know immediately what it means," wrote German feminist scholar Gabriele Dietze provocatively in 2016 about "the Event Cologne."1 In subsequent years, migration scholars have continued to frame the reported 2015 New Year's Eve sexual attacks at the Cologne main train station as a discursive watershed moment. By mid-January 2016 the police had issued more than one thousand citations, nearly half of which alleged sexual crimes or forms of sexual harassment (Landtag Nordrhein-Westfalen 15). By 2019, however, only three people had actually been found guilty ("Bilanz der Kölner Sylvesternacht"). Scholarship and mainstream media nevertheless saw in the Event Cologne a shift in ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: For a queer Asian woman making films in Germany, the odds of institutional support and recognition are unfavorable. The Vielfalt im Film survey conducted in 2020 provides substantial data on discrimination and diversity in the German film and television industries (Citizens for Europe). The results offer concrete data on job insecurity and wage gaps for women compared to men, filmmakers of color compared to white filmmakers, and openly queer filmmakers compared to heterosexual filmmakers. In interviews, Mongolian-born, Munich-based filmmaker and actress Uisenma Borchu has repeatedly criticized how the German film establishment was reluctant to fund her debut film Schau mich nicht so an (2015, Mongolian-German ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Written mostly in 1904 and published in 1921, Das Haus: Eine Familiengeschichte vom Ende vorigen Jahrhunderts (The house: A family history from the end of the last century) was Lou Andreas-Salomé's final novel. The translators of this work, Frank Beck and Raleigh Whitinger, state that their goals were to provide "English speakers access to the novel" and also to offer "a broader view of the development of Andreas-Salomé's skill in recasting, in poetically adroit narrative form, her own struggle for social and intellectual independence" (x). They assert that her fiction presented contemporary audiences with a "range of perspectives on the potential of—and the problems with—women's moves towards autonomy" within and ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Hester Baer's German Cinema in the Age of Neoliberalism offers an exciting new take on the history of German cinema from the early 1980s to the 2010s. Broad in scope, deep in theoretical underpinnings, and rich in discussion of an astounding variety of films, German Cinema makes a compelling case for its framing of the period as the neoliberal age. Baer argues that German cinema in the 1980s not merely exemplifies but in fact epitomizes the onset of neoliberalization of Western (and even Eastern) states in the era of advanced capitalism. The films she examines, she notes, make visible the effects of the "neoliberal turn" (33)—whether by upholding neoliberal ideology, which tends to operate invisibly, feigning ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Drawing on antiracist scholarship, especially that of Fatima El-Tayeb, Nicole Coleman emphasizes in her introduction to The Right to Difference that the German national identity continues to be imagined as mono-ethnic and white.1 She sees this reflected in literary categories of German literature and criticizes that what started as a homogenizing endeavor in the nineteenth century is still apparent when scholars work with a binary that differentiates between white German literature and migrant or intercultural literature. Coleman argues that literature studies must aim to represent the reality of German diversity and suggests a reconceptualization of the term "intercultural literature" that forgoes "categorization ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement, Tiffany N. Florvil elucidates several transnational perspectives that undergird the Black German movement. Both insightful and considered, this volume succeeds in "locating Germany as a key site for Black internationalism and extending the periodization of the scholarship through centering articulations of Black internationalism in the post-1970 era" (10). It is from this point of departure that Florvil portrays several variegated interpretations of Black diasporic figures from the 1980s. Building on Jacqueline Nassy Brown's work, Florvil underscores the central role of "diasporic resources" as cultural and community-based ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Drawn from sixteen papers delivered at the 2015 German Studies Association conference, this five-part volume draws on Christoph Kleßmann's term entanglement in investigating the porous, divisive, and at times continuous national contours between West (FRG) and East (GDR) Germany. Composed of novel works by women and gender scholars, this collection contributes to growing scholarship that re-narrativizes German-German history as one that is both parallel and asymmetrically entangled. Looking to politics, culture, social movements, resistance, sexuality, and the media, this work probes these sites as shaped by gender.This volume's contributions bring to the surface the multifaceted ways in which East and West German ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: S. E. Jackson's description of the actress as a "layered subject" (8) in her monograph, The Problem of the Actress in Modern German Theater and Thought, is an equally apt description of the book itself, which takes a multidimensional approach to the question of both the symbolic and the physical roles of actresses in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Jackson argues that actresses during this time were more than just symbolic stand-ins for women more broadly. In addition to this figurative role, Jackson contends, actresses participated in the development of modernist thinking on gender, performance, and subjectivity.Overall, the narrative of The Problem of the Actress is easy to follow. After ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This book is a tribute to Ruth Klüger, one of her generation's most versatile and courageous scholars in German studies on both sides of the Atlantic. Klüger, who died in 2020 at the age of eighty-nine, is perhaps best known for her autobiography, Weiter leben: Eine Jugend (1992; Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered, 2001), the story of her youth in Nazi concentration camps. Her scholarly work can be found in essay collections such as Katastrophen: Über deutsche Literatur (1994; Catastrophes: About German literature) and Frauen lesen anders (1996; Women read differently). The current volume was conceived and meticulously edited by Gesa Dane, a scholar of German literature and the director of Klüger's ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: It is now more than twenty years since the publication of The Imperialist Imagination: German Colonialism and Its Legacy (1999), and its influence on the field of German studies is still felt. As the title implies, After the Imperialist Imagination endeavors to pick up where Sara Friedrichsmeyer, Sara Lennox, and Susanne Zantop's edited volume left off, and Sara Pugach, David Pizzo, and Adam Blackler have assembled an impressive collection that represents a variety of disciplinary and methodological approaches not only to the legacies of German colonialism and imperialism but to the embeddedness of modern Germany in global contexts more broadly.The collection's sixteen chapters are organized chronologically into ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: When the Ethnographic and Asian Museums opened their doors in the west wing of Berlin's Humboldt Forum on 23 September 2021, the public gained access to approximately ten thousand objects from around the world. At the same time, the public also gained front-row seats to one of the largest and most controversial ethical reckonings in the history of the German museum landscape. Yes, the reconstructed baroque facades of the building have been a bone of contention for decades, but, more importantly, some of the museums' most famous objects—including the famous Benin Bronzes—were procured from European colonies during periods when Germany and other nations used violence, coercion, and even genocide to maintain their ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Inspired by Sara Ahmed's call to embrace living a feminist life in her book of the same name and to face injustices as a collective, Geschlecht und Geschlechterverhältnisse bewegen: Queer/Feminismen zwischen Widerstand, Subversion, und Solidarität (Shifting gender and gender relations: Queer/Feminisms and resistance, subversion, and solidarity), with its nine contributions, addresses sociohistorical and cultural phenomena and discursive interventions into contemporary feminist theory and activism. Underscoring that gender and gender relations are not only the object of research but are categories that are constantly in flux and transforming, the editors argue for the separation of feminist and queer analyses in ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In Sex between Body and Mind, Katie Sutton identifies a critical gap in the historiography of human sexuality: in the study of sexology and psychoanalysis in modern Germany, attention is paid almost exclusively to moments of divergence as each became a professional and institutionalized field of knowledge in the forty years leading to the rise of National Socialism. Sutton argues instead that we turn to moments of encounter between sexologists and psychoanalysis, because of the "crucial impact [they had] not only on modern understandings of human sexuality, but on modern understandings of the self" (2). As she writes in her introduction, Sutton emphasizes the productive and emancipatory potential of Foucauldian ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-24T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Every issue of Feminist German Studies is an example of collective knowledge production. The coeditors thank the editorial board of Feminist German Studies and the anonymous reviewers for their care, time, expertise, and commitment to feminist scholarship and scholars. Our gratitude to Elisa Riga, PhD candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder and Feminist German Studies intern, for her thoughtful input and invaluable support. Beverly thanks Allie for her patient, thoughtful, and insightful mentoring as Beverly came on board as coeditor! We thank the entire team at the University of Nebraska Press for their support and their un-flagging commitment to the ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-24T00:00:00-05:00
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