Women in German Yearbook 2003

by Boetcher Joeres, Ruth-Ellen; Gelus, Marjorie

• ISBN13: 9780803298385
• ISBN10: 0803298382
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

Women in German Yearbook is a refereed publication that presents a wide range of feminist approaches to all aspects of German literary, cultural, and language studies, including pedagogy. Each issue contains critical studies on the work, history, life, literature, and arts of women in the German-speaking world, reflecting the interdisciplinary perspectives that inform feminist German studies.Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres is a professor of German at the University of Minnesota. Marjorie Gelus is a professor of German at California State University at Sacramento.

Author Biography

Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres is a professor of German at the University of Minnesota.
Marjorie Gelus is a professor of German at California State University at Sacramento.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Preface	ix
The Measure of Our Words, or Taking How We Talk to Each Other Seriously	1	(8)
Angelika Bammer
Focus: Women and the Holocaust
Departures: New Feminist Perspectives on the Holocaust	9	(11)
Lisa Disch
Leslie Morris
Unspeakable Differences, Obscene Pleasures: The Holocaust as an Object of Desire	20	(30)
Karyn Ball
Positionality and Postmemory in Scholarship on the Holocaust	50	(25)
Pascale Bos
Postmemory Envy?	75	(24)
Elizabeth R. Baer
Hester Baer
Making the Stranger the Enemy: Gertrud Kolmar's Eine judische Mutter	99	(18)
Irene Kacandes
In the Waiting Room of Literature: Helen Grund and the Practice of Travel and Fashion Writing	117	(24)
Mila Ganeva
A Female Old Shatterhand? Colonial Heroes and Heroines in Lydia Hopker's Tales of Southwest Africa	141	(18)
Jill Suzanne Smith
Searching for Missing Pieces around Us: Christa Wolf's The Quest for Christa T. and Ingeborg Drewitz's Who Will Defend Katrin Lambert?	159	(20)
Michelle Mattson
Pro-Porn Rhetoric and the Cinema of Monika Treut	179	(21)
Muriel Cormican
Overcoming Boundaries: Feminist Doctorates and Women's Careers in Germanics 1980--2002	200	(51)
Patricia Herminghouse
David P. Benseler
About the Contributors	251	(4)
Notice to Contributors	255