Conquering Women : Women and War in the German Cultural Imagination

by Sy-Quia, Hilary Collier; Baackmann, Susanne

• ISBN13: 9780877250043
• ISBN10: 0877250049
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Inst of

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Atina Grossmann
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction	1	(11)
Hilary Collier Sy-Quia
The Body as Battleground: Images of the German Abortion Debate	12	(50)
Andrea Wuerth
Janice Monger
Constructing Borders: Image and Identity in Die Frau von Heute, 1945-49
Jennifer V. Evans	40	(22)
Sores That Still Bleed: Germany, the Great War, and Violence against Women in the Modernist Literary Imagination	62	(13)
Ellen Rees
The Discourse of Trauma-The Trauma of Discourse: Conquering Memory in Ingeborg Bachmann's Malina	75	(16)
Kristin Kopp
The Battle with Memory: Grete Weil's My Sister Antigone	91	(20)
Susanne Baackmann
``Truth Lies with the Victor'': Scars on the Skin and Silenced Memories--Christa Wolf's Medea	111	(15)
Hilary Collier Sy-Quia
The Amazon Body: Wartime Sexuality and Female Subjectivity in Kleist's Penthesilea	126	(17)
Renee M. Schell
Imperfect Myths: Gender and the Construction of Nation in Heinrich von Kleist's Die Herrmannsschlacht	143	(13)
Jennifer M. Kapczynski
Bettina and Louise: Gender Constructions in Bettina Brentano-von Arnim's Clemens Brentanos Fruhlingskranz	156	(21)
Elisabeth Krimmer
Divergent Interpretations of Women's Agency and Luther's Political Agenda	177	(22)
David O. Neville
Notes on Contributors	199