Women in German Yearbook articles from January 1 2004

Women in German Yearbook archives from January 1 2004

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Scandal writ large in the wake of the French Revolution: the case of Amalia Holst.
January 1, 2004... If feminist hopes during the French Revolution were betrayed by the wide gap between egalitarian rhetoric and actual gains for women, they were all but quashed following the Terror, when a pan-European conservative backlash snuffed out public...

The hidden face of Narcissus: suicide as poetic speech in Margarethe von Trotta's early films.
January 1, 2004... Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta has inspired astute, psychoanalytically informed scholarship that uniformly shies away from analyzing the taboo act that distinguishes three of her early films. Sisters, or the Balance...

Intertextual connections: structures of feminine identification in the works of Karin Struck.
January 1, 2004... The intertextual space is potentially a valuable resource for women authors writing self-consciously within a female literary heritage. For Karin Struck, the intertextual mode is a central feature, reflecting and supporting the thematic concern...

Neither foreigners nor aliens: the interwoven stories of Sinti and Roma and Black Germans.
January 1, 2004... The article undertakes a comparative investigation of the diverging histories of two communities of people of color that have been located in Germany for many generations: the Sinti and Roma and the Black Germans. My argument is made against a...

Feminist theories on the separation of the private and the public: looking back, looking forward.
January 1, 2004... This article discusses the development of feminist theories concerning the separation of public and private spheres. It reconstructs the critique of a dichotomization of both concepts and applies newer problematizations, for example the concept...

Did women really read differently? A historical-empirical contribution to gender-oriented reading research.
January 1, 2004... Do women read differently? My article pursues this question from a historical perspective for the period around 1800. On the one hand, in a reflection that is methodical and source-based, it attempts to explain which requirements should be...

Musing together at year twenty.(Women in German )
January 1, 2004... The two editors pool their reflections at Year 20 of the Yearbook, addressing, variously, questions of: Who am I to be editing the Yearbook? How does one go about co-writing an essay? What can a glance at the twenty volumes tell us about how...