Women and Death 2 - Warlike Women in the German Literary and Cultural Imagination since 1500

List of contents

Introduction - Sarah Colvin and Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly
The German Reception of the Amazon Myths from Hederich to Bachofen - Daria Santini
Wearing the Trousers: The Woman Warrior as Cross-dresser in German Literature - Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly
Women Warriors, Feminism, and National Socialism: The Reception of J. J. Bachofen's View of Amazons among German and Austrian Right-Wing Women Writers - Peter Davies
Women Warriors and the Origin of the State: Zacharias Werner's Wanda and Heinrich von Kleist's Penthesilea - Ritchie Robertson
Germania in Armor: The Female Representation of an Endangered German Nation - Bettina Brandt
Terror in Germany 1918-19: Visual Commentaries on Rosa Luxemburg's Assassination - Kathrin Hoffmann-Curtius
German Conceptions of War, Masculinity, and Femininity in the Long Nineteenth Century - Ute Frevert
Soldiers and Mothers in the German Bundeswehr: Constructions of Gender and Service under Arms - Ruth Seifert
Gender and the Military in East Germany: Defense Policies and the Woman Question in the GDR - Christine Eifler
West German Representations of Women and Resistance in Vietnam, 1966-73 - Mererid Puw Davies
Witch, Amazon, or Joan of Arc? Ulrike Meinhof's Defenders, or How to Legitimize a Violent Woman - Sarah Colvin

Product details

• Authors: Bettina Brandt, Sarah Colvin, Christine Eifler, Daria Santini, Helen Watanabe-o`kell
• Assisted by: Sarah Colvin (Editor), Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2009
• EAN: 9781571134004
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-400-4
• No. of pages: 324
• Weight: 610 g
• Illustrations: 43 b/w illus.
• Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture; Studies in German Literature,; Studies in German Literature L
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous