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Grete Meisel-Hess - The New Woman and the Sexual Crisis (Hardcover)
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Grete Meisel-Hess - The New Woman and the Sexual Crisis (Hardcover)
Series: Women and Gender in German Studies
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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 voice in
early-twentieth-century modernist discourse. Born in Prague to
Jewish parents and raised in Vienna, she became a literary presence
with her 1902 novel Fanny Roth. Influenced by many of her
contemporaries, she also criticized their notions of gender and
sexuality. Relocating to Berlin, she continued to write fiction and
began publishing on sexology and the women's movement. Helga
Thorson's book combines a literary-cultural exploration of
modernism in Vienna and Berlin with a biography of Meisel-Hess and
a critical analysis of her works. Focusing on Meisel-Hess's
negotiations of feminism, modernism, and Jewishness, it illustrates
the dynamic interplay between gender, sexuality, and race/ethnicity
in Austrian and German modernism. Analyzing Meisel-Hess's fiction
as well as her sexological studies, Thorson argues that Meisel-Hess
posited herself as both a "New Woman" and the writer of the "New
Woman." The book draws on extensive archival research that
uncovered a large number of new sources, including an unpublished
drama and a variety of documents and letters scattered in
collections across Europe. Until now there have been only limited
secondary sources about Meisel-Hess, most containing errors and
omissions regarding her biography. This is the first book on
Meisel-Hess in English.
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