UID:
edocfu_9960943601902883
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 413 pages) :
,
illustrations.
ISBN:
1-80010-605-X
Series Statement:
Women and gender in German studies
Content:
"This volume responds to the #MeToo movement, whose worldwide resonance has illustrated not only the ubiquity of sexual abuse and sexual violence but also the failure to hold perpetrators accountable. Representing a range of disciplines, the collected essays engage current cultural and political discourses about systemic sexism, feminist theory and practice, and gender-based discrimination from an academic and activist perspective. The focus on national cultures of German-speaking Europe from the mid-eighteenth century to the present captures the persistence of normalized and institutionalized sexism, reframed through the lens of a contemporary political and social movement. With 16 essays from established and emerging scholars, German #MeToo argues that sexual violence is not a universal human constant. Rather, it is enabled and sustained by the social, political, cultural, legal and economic fabric of specific societies. The contributors sustain and vary their exploration of #MeToo-related issues through considerations of rape, prostitution, sexual murder, the politics of consent, and victim-blaming as enacted in canonical and marginalized authors, the visual arts, the graphic novel, film, television, and theater"--
Note:
Introduction -- Part I. Histories. Eighteenth-century #MeToo : rape culture and victim-blaming in Heinrich Leopold Wagner's Die Kindermo¨rderin (1776) -- #MeToo : prostitution and the syntax of sexuality around 1800 -- Part II. Dialogues across time. "Immaculate" conception, the "romance of rape," and #MeToo : Kleistian echoes in Kerstin Hensel and Julia Franck -- Female sacrifice, sexual assault, and dehumanization : bourgeois tragedy, horror, and the making of Jud Su¨ß -- "Na, wenn du mich erst fragst?" : Reconsidering affirmative consent with Schnitzler, Schnitt, Habeermas, and Rancie`re -- Part III. Sexual violence, warfare, and genocide. War of the vulva : the women of Otto Dix's Lustmord series -- Death to the patriarchal theater! Charlotte Salomon's graphic testimony -- #MeToo and wartime rape : looking back and moving forward -- Part IV. The institutions of #MeToo. Boarding-school novels around 1900 : the relation of male fear of women to male-male seduction and sexual abuse in Hesse, Musil, and Walser -- Breaking the silence about sexualized violence in Lilly Axtser's and Beate Teresa Hanika's young adult fiction (YAF) -- "Eine gigantische Vergewaltigung" : rape as subject in Roger Fritz's Ma¨dchen mit Gewalt (1970) -- Elfriede Jelinek and Ingeborg Bachmann : transformations of the capitalist patriarchy and narrating sexual violence in the twentieth century -- Staging consent and threatened masculinity : the debate on #MeToo in contemporary German theater -- Part V. #MeToo across cultural and national borders. Patriarchy, male violence, and disadvantaged women : representations of Muslims in the crime television -- Fatih Akin's Head on : challenging mythologies of German social work in Gegen die Wand (2004) -- Is a prostitute rapeable? Teresa Ruiz Rosas's novel Nada que declarar in dialogue with #MeToo.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781800106055
