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Women and Gender in German Studies focuses on the literary contributions of German-speaking women from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, as well as feminist approaches to canonical literature.

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14 results in Women and Gender in German Studies

Mathilde Möhring
  • Translated by Rachael Huener
  • Theodor Fontane
  • Afterword by Helen Chambers
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 February 2024
    Print publication:
    10 October 2023
  • The first English translation of Fontane's late, posthumously published novel, featuring the eponymous, complex heroine and confronting issues regarding gender roles and marriage that still resonate today.

Modeling Motherhood in Weimar Germany
  • Political and Psychological Discourses in Women's Writing
  • Katherine E. Calvert
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 February 2024
    Print publication:
    28 November 2023
  • Reveals how socialist discourses and psychoanalytic ideas shaped the modern models of motherhood envisioned by women writers working in the Weimar press and literary spheres.

Imaginaries of Domesticity and Women's Work in Germany around 1800
  • Karin A. Wurst
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    11 January 2024
    Print publication:
    04 April 2023
  • Examines a variety of texts from late Enlightenment Germany to provide a nuanced rethinking of women's roles as wives, mothers, and housekeepers, creators of the cultural spaces of the home.

Plants, Places, and Power
  • Toward Social and Ecological Justice in German Literature and Film
  • Maria Stehle
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    09 January 2024
    Print publication:
    14 February 2021
  • Examines portrayals of plants and landscapes in recent German novels and films, addressing the contemporary forms of racism, nationalism, and social and ecological injustice that they expose.

Elsa Asenijeff’s Is that love? and Innocence
  • A Voice Reclaimed
  • Elsa Asenijeff
  • Edited by Eva Hoffmann, Alexis B. Smith
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    12 January 2023
    Print publication:
    20 September 2022
  • First English translations of two early feminist short-story collections, shedding light on the 'woman question' at the turn of the twentieth century and relating to today's #MeToo movement.

Grete Meisel-Hess
  • The New Woman and the Sexual Crisis
  • Helga Thorson
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    11 January 2023
    Print publication:
    23 August 2022
  • 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.

The Memoirs of Ceija Stojka, Child Survivor of the Romani Holocaust
  • Ceija Stojka
  • Edited by Lorely E. French
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    20 December 2022
    Print publication:
    15 November 2022
  • First English translation of the memoirs of Austrian Romani Holocaust survivor, writer, visual artist, musician, and activist Ceija Stojka (1933-2013), along with poems, an interview, historical photos, and reproductions of her artworks.

German #MeToo
  • Rape Cultures and Resistance, 1770-2020
  • Edited by Elisabeth Krimmer, Patricia Anne Simpson
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    08 October 2022
    Print publication:
    19 July 2022
  • 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.

The Tender Gaze
  • Compassionate Encounters on the German Screen, Page, and Stage
  • Edited by Muriel Cormican, Marston William
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 October 2022
    Print publication:
    15 June 2021
  • By exploring the concept of the 'tender gaze' in German film, theater, and literature, this volume's contributors illustrate how perspective-taking in works of art fosters empathy and prosocial behaviors.

Anneliese's House

Great Books by German Women in the Age of Emotion, 1770-1820
  • Margaretmary Daley
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    26 May 2022
    Print publication:
    15 April 2022
  • Emphasizing the role of and portrayal of emotion, this study argues for the inclusion of six late-eighteenth-century German language novels by and about women in a revised canon.

Writing the Self, Creating Community
  • German Women Authors and the Literary Sphere, 1750–1850
  • Edited by Elisabeth Krimmer, Lauren Nossett
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    01 October 2020
    Print publication:
    15 May 2020
  • This volume examines the world of German women writers who emerged in the burgeoning literary marketplace of eighteenth-century Europe.

Realities and Fantasies of German Female Leadership
  • From Maria Antonia of Saxony to Angela Merkel
  • Edited by Elisabeth Krimmer, Patricia Anne Simpson
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    24 October 2019
    Print publication:
    01 August 2019
  • A collection of essays achieving a deeper understanding of the historical roots and theoretical assumptions that inform the realities and fantasies of German female leadership.

Willful Girls
  • Gender and Agency in Contemporary Anglo-American and German Fiction
  • Emily Jeremiah
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    23 August 2019
    Print publication:
    15 January 2018
  • Explores the process of "becoming woman" through an analysis of the depiction of girls and young women in contemporary Anglo-American and German literary texts.