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This volume of new essays represents a collective, academic, and
activist effort to interpret German literature and culture in the
context of the international #MeToo movement, illustrating and
interrogating the ways that "rape cultures" persist. Responding to
the worldwide impact of the #MeToo movement, this volume
investigates not only the ubiquity of sexual abuse and sexual
violence but also the transhistorical and transnational failure to
hold perpetrators accountable. From a range of disciplines, the
collected essays engage current cultural and political discourses
about systemic sexism, feminist theory and practice, and
gender-based discrimination from an academic and activist
perspective. The focus on national cultures of German-speaking
Europe from the mid-eighteenth century to the present captures the
persistence of normalized and institutionalized sexism, reframed
through the lens of a contemporary political and social movement.
German #MeToo argues that sexual violence is not a universal human
constant. Rather, it is nurtured and sustained by the social,
political, cultural, legal, and economic fabric of specific
societies. The authors sustain and vary their exploration of
#MeToo-related issues through considerations of rape, prostitution,
sexual murder, the politics of consent, and victim-blaming as
enacted in literary works by canonical and marginalized authors,
the visual arts, the graphic novel, film, television, and theater.
The analysis of rape myths - of discourses and practices in German
history and culture that subtend and indemnify sexual violence - is
a central subject of this edited volume. Throughout, German #MeToo
challenges narratives of sex-based discrimination while emphasizing
the strategies of resistance and the importance of telling one's
own story.
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