Mad mädchen : feminism and generational conflict in recent German literature and film

Mad mädchen : feminism and generational conflict in recent German literature and film / Margaret McCarthy.

The last two decades have been transformational, often discordant ones for German feminism, as a new cohort of activists has come of age and challenged many of the movement's strategic and philosophical orthodoxies. Mad MAdchen offers an incisive analysis of these trans-generational debates, id...

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Main Author: McCarthy, Margaret, 1963- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2017.
Subjects:
1900-2099
German literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Women in literature.
German literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
Feminism and literature > Germany.
Motion pictures > Germany > History > 20th century.
Women in motion pictures.
Feminism and motion pictures > Germany.
Motion pictures > Germany > History > 21st century.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
Feminism and literature
Feminism and motion pictures
German literature
Motion pictures
Women in literature
Women in motion pictures
Germany
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1
  • German Feminisim in the 2000s: Brains, Bodies, and Bridges; Chapter 2
  • Lost Objects, Monsters, and Melancholia in Zöe Jenny's The Pollen Room, Alexa Hennig von Lange's Relax, and Elke Naters's Lies; Chapter 3
  • Dialogical and Borderline Selfhood in Charlotte Roche's Wetlands (2008) and Wrecked (2011); Chapter 4
  • Girls Gone Wild: Ulrike Meinhof, Uschi Obermaier, and Feminist Fantasies of '68.
  • Chapter 5
  • Counter-Cinema, Crossing Bridges, and Future Feminisms: Christian Petzold's The State I Am In (2000) and Fatih Akin's The Edge of Heaven (2007)Chapter 6
  • Mutable Mädchen: On Screen and in the Streets; Bibliography; Index.

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