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Women and death 2 : warlike women in the German literary and cultural imagination since 1500

Title
Women and death 2 : warlike women in the German literary and cultural imagination since 1500 / edited by Sarah Colvin and Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly.
Publication
Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Colvin, Sarah.
  • Watanabe-O'Kelly, Helen.
Description
viii, 313 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Uniform Title
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)
Alternative Title
Women and death two
Subject
  • German literature > History and criticism
  • Women in literature
  • Amazons in literature
  • Women soldiers in literature
  • Violence in literature
  • Women and death
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The German reception of the Amazon myths from Hederich to Bachofen / Daria Santini -- Wearing the trousers: the woman warrior as cross-dresser in German literature / Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly -- Women warriors, feminism, and national socialism: the reception of J.J. Bachofen's view of amazons among German and Austrian right-wing women writers / Peter Davies -- Women warriors and the origin of the state: Zacharias Werner's Wanda and Heinrich von Kleist's Penthesilea / Ritchie Robertson -- Germania in armor: the female representation of an endangered German nation / Bettina Brandt -- Terror in Germany 1918-19: visual commentaries on Rosa Luxemburg's assassination / Kathrin Hoffmann-Curtius -- German conceptions of war, masculinity, and femininity in the long nineteenth century / Ute Frevert -- Soldiers and mothers in the German Bundeswehr: constructions of gender and service under arms / Ruth Seifert -- Gender and the military in East Germany: defense policies and the woman question in the GDR / Christine Eifler -- West German representations of women and resistance in Vietnam, 1966-73 / Mererid Puw Davies -- Witch, Amazon, or Joan of Arc? Ulrike meinhof's defenders, or how to legitimize a violent woman / Sarah Colvin .
Call Number
ReCAP 11-19002
ISBN
  • 9781571134004 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 157113400X (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
2009013091
OCLC
299710203
Title
Women and death 2 : warlike women in the German literary and cultural imagination since 1500 / edited by Sarah Colvin and Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly.
Imprint
Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2009.
Series
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Colvin, Sarah.
Watanabe-O'Kelly, Helen.
Research Call Number
ReCAP 11-19002
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