Women in German Yearbook articles

Recent articles from Women in German Yearbook

Preface.
January 1, 2004... What does one do to celebrate a twentieth anniversary? For that is what the Women in German Yearbook is doing with this volume, its twentieth: celebrating a sizeable number of years of lively existence. This anniversary marks a moment in which the yearbook is approximately two-thirds as old...

Yellowed pages, virtual realities: publication in women in German's past, present, and future.(Women in German Yearbook)
January 1, 2004... The first two presidents of WiG reflect on the history of the organization and the Yearbook, take stock of the present, and speculate about the future. WiG began as a supportive community for feminist Germanists isolated in their departments from like-minded scholars. The Yearbook has come to...

Traffic of women in Germanic literature: the role of the peace pledge in marital exchanges.
January 1, 2004... In order to bind men together and ensure peace, Germanic women of the highest rank sometimes served as peace pledges and were trafficked in marital exchange. Analysis of the women in The Wife's Lament, Wulf and Eadwacer, Beowulf, and Volsungasaga elucidates the political implications of such...

Adam Schubart's early modern "Tyrant She-Man": female misbehavior, gender, and the disciplining of hybrid bodies.
January 1, 2004... Herr Sieman, the ambiguously gendered figure of the She-Man that finds representation in texts and images from the late fifteenth through the early seventeenth century, has received scant attention by literary scholars and has typically been read as a metaphor for imperious wives who wish to...

Anna Louisa Karsch as Sappho.
January 1, 2004... Anna Louisa Karsch became known as "the German Sappho" in the early 1760s and she performed this social and poetic role self-consciously to develop and market her public literary persona. In poems written for the public, Karsch performs the role of Sappho to position herself aesthetically as...