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Identifies and analyzes thematizations of women and death from the
past five centuries, illuminating the present and recent past. The
theme of women and death is pervasive in the German culture of the
past five centuries. With the conviction that only an
interdisciplinary approach can explore a typology as far-reaching
and significant as this, and in accordance with the feminist tenet
that images are accountable for norms, this volume investigates how
iconic representations of women and death came about and why they
endure. Traditionally, representations of women as agents of death
-- when they have been considered at all -- have been considered
separately from women as victims, as though there was no shared
thematic ground. Here, familiar depictions of female victims are
examined alongside the more unsettling spectacle of women as
killers, exposing cultural assumptions. Essays explore, among
others, the themes of virgin sacrifice and female infanticides,
"Death and the Maiden" in art, female vampires in literature, and
women killersin the media. Others compare cultural practices such
as female mourning across historical contexts, examining change and
the reasons for it. The authors' judgments eschew the simplistic
and programmatic, contributing not just to current research in
German literature, but also to understanding of cultural history in
general. Contributors: Stephanie Knoell, Ruth B. Bottigheimer, Anna
Linton, Bettina Bildhauer, Mary Lindemann, Helen Fronius, Anna
Richards, Jurgen Barkhoff, Lawrence Kramer, Kathrin
Hoffmann-Curtius, Clare Bielby, Gisela Ecker. Anna Linton is
Lecturer in German at Kings College London, and Helen Fronius is an
AHRC Research Fellow and College Lecturer at Exeter College Oxford.
Explores both constants and changes in representations of warlike
and violent women in German culture over the past six centuries.
Warlike women are a recurring phenomenon in German literature and
culture since 1500. Amazons, terrorists, warrior women -- this
volume of essays by leading scholars from the UK and Germany
analyzes ideas and portrayals of these figures in the visual arts,
society, media, and scholarship, always against the backdrop of
Germany's development as a culture and as a nation. The
contributors look for patterns in the historical portrayal of
warlike women, askingthe questions: What cultural signals are sent
when women are shown occupying men's spaces by dressing as warriors
or in men's clothing? What can legitimize the woman who bears arms?
From what is the erotic potential of images linking women and
violence derived? Have recent feminist thought and political
developments changed representations of warlike women?
Contributors: Bettina Brandt, Sarah Colvin, Mererid Puw Davies,
Peter Davies, ChristineEifler, Ute Frevert, Kathrin
Hoffmann-Curtius, Ritchie Robertson, Daria Santini, Ruth Seifert,
Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly. Sarah Colvin is Eudo C. Mason Chair of
German at the University of Edinburgh. Helen Watanabe-O'Kellyis
Professor of German at Oxford University and Fellow and Tutor of
Exeter College, Oxford.
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