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The last two decades have been transformational, often discordant
ones for German feminism, as a new cohort of activists has come of
age and challenged many of the movement's strategic and
philosophical orthodoxies. Mad Madchen offers an incisive analysis
of these trans-generational debates, identifying the
mother-daughter themes and other tropes that have defined their
representation in German literature, film, and media. Author
Margaret McCarthy investigates female subjectivity as it processes
political discourse to define itself through both differences and
affinities among women. Ultimately, such a model suggests new ways
of re-imagining feminist solidarity across generational, ethnic,
and racial lines.
The last two decades have been transformational, often discordant
ones for German feminism, as a new cohort of activists has come of
age and challenged many of the movement's strategic and
philosophical orthodoxies. Mad Madchen offers an incisive analysis
of these trans-generational debates, identifying the
mother-daughter themes and other tropes that have defined their
representation in German literature, film, and media. Author
Margaret McCarthy investigates female subjectivity as it processes
political discourse to define itself through both differences and
affinities among women. Ultimately, such a model suggests new ways
of re-imagining feminist solidarity across generational, ethnic,
and racial lines.
The first collection of essays treating exclusively the figure of
the prostitute in modern German literature. Unlike her counterpart
in French literature, and despite her importance in drama, poetry,
and prose, the figure of the prostitute in modern German literature
has been a largely neglected phenomenon. Commodities of Desire
addresses this omission: it is the first collection of essays to
exclusively investigate this colorful and multi-faceted figure in
its many forms and mutations. The book pursues this goal by
analyzing a number of key texts -- from the Wilhelmine Empire to
the Weimar Republic -- and by providing the social, legal, and
cultural contexts necessary for their interpretation. While the
'sex-worker' has been a presence in literature for centuries, the
prostitute was never more popular in German literature than between
the late 1880s and the early 1930s. It was then -- during a time
when prostitution had become one of the most pressing social
problems of urban Germany -- that the streetwalker became a symbol
of the destructive and fertile forces of the metropolis, an
allegorization of the political and social crisis, and a vehicle
for biting social criticism. This book focuses on prostitutes as
literary figures and prostitution as a topic in works by well-known
and lesser-known writers. It thus clarifies the iconography of the
prostitute and aids the reader in understanding her significance in
the development of modern German literature. Christiane Schoenfeld
teaches German at the University of Galway, Ireland.
In this twenty-first century our external environment contains
innumerable hazards to our health and wellbeing. These impose new
and ever greater challenges to our immune systems. As our immune
systems become over-loaded and the number and variety of medical
problems from which we suffer increases. Often conventional
medicine is ill-equipped to deal with these problems. In
consequence dealing with chronic illness is becoming a growing
burden for society and healthcare providers. In Lymphatic Therapy
for Toxic Decongestion Margaret McCarthy describes the relationship
between degenerative disease and physiological malfunction within
the body. She then goes on to demonstrate how an integrated
therapy, which draws on a variety of approaches, may be used to
assess the body as a whole and to promote restoration of health
simply, effectively and economically, without the use of expensive
drugs or equipment. Practical approach uses case histories to
explain how and when to use specific techniques. Well illustrated
with high-quality line drawings to clarify the text.
Straightforward style is easy to read and understand. Written by an
experienced practitioner for the most accurate, authoritative
perspective on lymphatic therapy.
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Cursed (Paperback)
Margaret McCarthy
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R327
R265
Discovery Miles 2 650
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Light Motives undertakes a long-overdue critical reassessment of
German popular cinema, challenging the traditional view of German
film history and offering new ways to think about popular cinema in
general. Critics rarely associate popular film with German cinema
despite the international success of such films as Das Boot (1981),
The Never-Ending Story (1984), Run Lola Run (1998), and recent
German comedies, all representing a rich body of work outside the
parameters of high culture. This very success compels the editors
of Light Motives to take an unprecedented look at German popular
film across the historical spectrum and to challenge the tendency
among critics to divvy up German film, like Germans themselves,
into the Good and the Bad. Together the essays reexamine popular
film production along with larger cultural, historical, and
political meanings suggested by the term "popular." Most critical
accounts have focused on the golden era of Weimar film and the New
German Cinema of the 1960s and '70s leaving much of popular film by
the wayside. This volume attributes the division to such sources as
Frankfurt School dictates, Goethe Haus film offerings, and
state-funded film production during the 1970s, which promoted
high-culture art films to broadcast the success of West German
democratization. The essays challenge the traditional shape of
German film history, while offering in-depth analyses of films that
have until now been beyond the pale of critical attention. What
emerges is a "Never-Ending Story" of oft-repeated obsessions,
overlapping generic forms, omnipresent or subtle nods to Hollywood,
and myriad political concerns irreducible to a unified message or
aesthetic form--allbearing witness to the vibrancy of German
culture.
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