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German #MeToo : rape cultures and resistance, 1770-2020 /

"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 politica...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Krimmer, Elisabeth, 1967- (Editor), Simpson, Patricia Anne, 1958- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2022.
Series:Women and gender in German studies.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Histories. Eighteenth-century #MeToo : rape culture and victim-blaming in Heinrich Leopold Wagner's Die Kindermörderin (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 Süß
  • "Na, wenn du mich erst fragst?" : Reconsidering affirmative consent with Schnitzler, Schnitt, Habeermas, and Rancière
  • 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 Mädchen 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.