German #MeToo (eBook, ePUB)

Rape Cultures and Resistance, 1770-2020
Redaktion: Krimmer, Elisabeth; Simpson, Patricia Anne

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume of new essays represents a collective, academic, and activist effort to interpret German literature and culture in the context of the international #MeToo movement, illustrating and interrogating the ways that "rape cultures" persist.

Responding to the worldwide impact of the #MeToo movement, this volume investigates not only the ubiquity of sexual abuse and sexual violence but also the transhistorical and transnational failure to hold perpetrators accountable. From 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.
German #MeToo argues that sexual violence is not a universal human constant. Rather, it is nurtured and sustained by the social, political, cultural, legal, and economic fabric of specific societies. The authors 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 literary works by canonical and marginalized authors, the visual arts, the graphic novel, film, television, and theater. The analysis of rape myths - of discourses and practices in German history and culture that subtend and indemnify sexual violence - is a central subject of this edited volume. Throughout, German #MeToo challenges narratives of sex-based discrimination while emphasizing the strategies of resistance and the importance of telling one's own story.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800106062
• Artikelnr.: 64383813

Autorenporträt

Edited by Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Anne Simpson

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Anne Simpson Part I.
Histories 1: Eighteenth-Century #MeToo: Rape Culture and Victim Blaming in
Heinrich Leopold Wagner's Die Kindermörderin (1776) - Lisa Wille 2: #MeToo:
Prostitution and the Syntax of Sexuality around 1800 - Patricia Anne
Simpson Part II. Dialogues across Time 3: "Immaculate Conception," the
"Romance of Rape," and #MeToo: Kleistian Echoes in Kerstin Hensel and Julia
Franck - Melissa Ann Sheedy 4: Female Sacrifice, Sexual Assault, and
Dehumanization: Bourgeois Tragedy, Horror, and the Making of Jud Süß -
Deborah Janson 5: "Na, wenn du mich erst fragst?": Reconsidering
Affirmative Consent with Schnitzler, Schnitt, Habermas, and Rancière -
Sonja Boos Part III. Sexual Violence, Warfare, and Genocide 6: War of the
Vulva: The Women of Otto Dix's Lustmord Series - Jessica Davis 7: Death to
the Patriarchal Theater! Charlotte Salomon's Graphic Testimony - Maureen
Burdock 8: #MeToo and Wartime Rape: Looking Back and Moving Forward -
Katherine Stone Part IV. The Institutions of #MeToo 9: Boarding-School
Novels around 1900: The Relation of Male Fear of Women to Male-Male
Seduction and Sexual Abuse in Hesse, Musil, and Walser - Niklas Straetker
10: Breaking the Silence about Sexualized Violence in Lilly Axtser's and
Beate Teresa Hanika's Young Adult Fiction (YAF) - Anna Sator 11: "Eine
gigantische Vergewaltigung": Rape as Subject in Roger Fritz's Mädchen mit
Gewalt (1970) - Lisa Haegele 12: Elfriede Jelinek and Ingeborg Bachmann:
Transformations of the Capitalist Patriarchy and Narrating Sexual Violence
in the Twentieth Century - Aylin Bademsoy 13: Staging Consent and
Threatened Masculinity: The Debate on #MeToo in Contemporary German Theater
- Daniele Vecchiato Part V. #MeToo Across Cultural and National Borders
14: Patriarchy, Male Violence, and Disadvantaged Women: Representations of
Muslims in the Crime Television Series Tatort - Sascha Gerhards 15: Fatih
Akin's Head On: Challenging Mythologies of German Social Work in Gegen die
Wand (2004) - Florian Gassner 16: Is a Prostitute Rapeable? Teresa Ruiz
Rosas's Novel Nada que declarar in Dialogue with #MeToo - Kathrin Breuer
Notes on the Contributors Index