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In contemporary popular culture, armed women take center stage - but how can they be read from a feminist perspective? How do films, comics, and TV series depict the newly fashionable gunwomen between objectification and feminist empowerment? The contributions to this volume ask this question from different vantage points in cultural and literary studies, film and visual culture studies, history, and art history. They examine military and civic gun cultures, the rediscovery of historical armed women and revolutionaries, cultural phenomena such as gangsta rap, narcocultura and US politics, Bollywood and French cinema, and distinct genres such as the graphic novel, the romance novel, or the German police procedural Tatort.
About the author
Teresa Hiergeist (Prof. Dr. phil.), geb. 1984, forscht und lehrt an der Universität Wien zu spanischer und französischer Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft. Ihre Schwerpunkte liegen im Bereich der kognitiven Narratologie, Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen in der Frühen Neuzeit und Paragesellschaften seit dem ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert.Stefanie Schäfer promovierte in Japanologie an der Freien Universität Berlin. Ihre Forschung befasst sich mit Fragen des kollektiven Erinnerns, insbesondere mit dem Atombombengedenken und seiner touristischen Dimension.
Summary
In contemporary popular culture, armed women take center stage – but how can they be read from a feminist perspective? How do films, comics, and TV series depict the newly fashionable gunwomen between objectification and feminist empowerment? The contributions to this volume ask this question from different vantage points in cultural and literary studies, film and visual culture studies, history, and art history. They examine military and civic gun cultures, the rediscovery of historical armed women and revolutionaries, cultural phenomena such as gangsta rap, narcocultura and US politics, Bollywood and French cinema, and distinct genres such as the graphic novel, the romance novel, or the German police procedural Tatort.
Report
O-Ton: »Bewaffnete Frauen werden entdeckt, zum Leben erweckt und neu erzählt« - Stefanie Schäfer im Interview bei Die Presse am 23.03.2024.
