#MeToo movement
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Rape cultures
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Systemic sexism
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- ISBN 9781640141353
- Weight: 734g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 19 Jul 2022
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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.
ELISABETH KRIMMER is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis. PATRICIA ANNE SIMPSON is Professor of German at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Lisa Wille, is research associate at the Department of Modern German Literature at the Technical University of Darmstadt. Melissa Sheedy is a Lecturer in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Deborah Janson is an associate professor of German at West Virginia University Sonja Boos, was Associate Professor of German at the University of Oregon, where she was also affiliated with European Studies. Jessica Davis is a PhD candidate majoring in modern/contemporary art with minors in African art and eighteenth/nineteenth century European art MAUREEN BURDOCK is a graphic storyteller, writer, and illustrator with dual master's degrees from the California School of the Arts and a PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of California, Davis. Katherine Stone is an Associate Professor in German Studies at the University of Warwick Niklas Straetker is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Germanic Languages at Columbia University Anna Sator is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Freiburg Lisa Haegele is assistant professor of German at Texas State University Aylin Bademsoy is a PhD candidate in the German Department at UC Davis. Daniele Vecchiato is Assistant Professor of German and Translation Studies at the University of Padua, Italy. Sascha Andreas Gerhards is a Visiting Assistant Professor of German at Wittenberg University in Springfield, OH Florian Gassner received his PhD in Germanic Studies from the University of British Columbia; followed by lectureship at Mount Allison University, postdoctoral fellowship at the New Europe College in Bucharest, and DAAD-Lektorat at the Donetsk National University. He is Associate Professor of Teaching at the University of British Columbia. Kathrin Breuer is an Associate Professor of Practice of German at Brandeis University where she also serves as the Director of the German Language Program.
