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Gender and Germanness
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Cultural Studies have been preoccupied with questions of national identity and cultural representations. At the same time, feminist studies have insisted upon the entanglement of gender with issues of nation, class, and ethnicity. Developments in the wake of German unification demand a reassessment of the nexus of gender, Germanness and nationhood. The contributors to this volume pursue these strands of the cultural debate in German history, literature, visual arts, and language over a period of three hundred years in sections devoted to History and the Canon, Visual Culture, Germany and Her "Others," and Language and Power.
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
346
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Herndon, United States
ISBN
9781571811134
SKU
V9781571811134
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99-15
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Patricia Herminghouse teaches in the Department of Modern Languages and Culture at the University of Rochester.
Reviews for Gender and Germanness
"This fascinating and informative collection of twenty-two mostly original essays showcases feminist German Studies at its finest ... Decentering Germany in our own scholarly work will help us to further challenge the settled definitions of gender and Germanness which this volume so splendidly details." · Women in German