Format:
VIII, 313 S.
,
Ill.
ISBN:
157113400X
,
9781571134004
Series Statement:
Women and death 2
Content:
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
Note:
Literaturverz. S. [273] - 300
Language:
English
Keywords:
Deutsch
;
Literatur
;
Deutschland
;
Kultur
;
Gesellschaft
;
Frau
;
Tötung
;
Kriegerin
;
Gewalt
;
Geschichte 1500-2000
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Colvin, Sarah 1967-
Author information:
Watanabe-O'Kelly, Helen 1948-
