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'Bluebeard', in which women are slaughtered and hidden in a horrible chamber by a monstrous husband, is hair-raising; yet its happy ending gives it a utopian force. Davies's book focuses on literature in German from the eighteenth century to the 1990s, and is the first full-length study of the history of Bluebeard published in any language.
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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