Volume 37, No. 2 (Fall/Winter 2021)
Contents Acknowledgments
Editors’ Introduction
“Most Marriages Are Unhappy”: From Elsa Asenijeff’s
Unschuld (1901) to Today’s Postfeminism
Eva Hoffmann
Queer Moments and Cruel Optimism in Evelyn Schmidt’s
Das Fahrrad (1981)
Muriel Cormican
Putting the Sovereignty of Motherhood to the Test: Late-Term Abortion in Anne Zohra Berrached’s
24 Wochen (2016)
Waltraud Maierhofer
Sexualized Violence and Racialized Others: Syrian Refugee Activism and Constructions of Difference Immediately after Cologne
Emily Frazier-Rath
Book Reviews Hans Adler and Sonja E. Klocke, editors.
Protest und Verweigerung/Protest and Refusal: Neue Tendenzen in der deutschen Literatur seit 1989/New Trends in German Literature since 1989 Doris McGonagill
Angermuseum Erfurt, Kai Uwe Schierz, Patrick Rössler, Miriam Krautwurst, and Elizabeth Otto, editors.
4 “Bauhausmädels”: Gertrud Arndt, Marianne Brandt, Margarete Heumann, Margaretha Reichardt Carol Anne Costabile-Heming
Karin Baumgartner and Monika Shafi, editors.
Anxious Journeys: Twenty-First-Century Travel Writing in German Daniela Richter
Barbara Hales.
Black Magic Woman: Gender and the Occult in Weimar Germany Maria Stehle
Elisabeth Krimmer and Lauren Nossett, editors.
Writing the Self, Creating Community: German Women Authors and the Literary Sphere, 1750–1850 Beth Ann Muellner
René Lépine.
Judith Butler: Philosophie für Einsteiger Tiarra Cooper
Rob McFarland, Georg Spitaler, and Ingo Zechner, editors.
Das Rote Wien: Schlüsseltexte der Zweiten Wiener Moderne, 1919–1934 Viktoria Pötzl
Rick McCormick.
Sex, Politics, and Comedy: The Transnational Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch Rob McFarland
Barbara N. Nagel.
Ambiguous Aggression in German Realism and Beyond: Flirtation, Passive Aggression, Domestic Violence Julie Shoults
Caroline Rupprecht.
Asian Fusion: New Encounters in the Asian-German Avant-Garde Arina Rotaru
Paula Schlier.
Petras Aufzeichnungen, oder Konzept einer Jugend nach dem Diktat der Zeit Laura McLary
Lauren Selfe.
Representations of Muslim Women in German Popular Culture, 1990–2015 Emily Frazier-Rath
Patricia Anne Simpson.
The Play World: Toys, Texts, and the Transatlantic German Childhood Jennifer Redmann
Maria Stehle and Beverly Weber.
Precarious Intimacies: The Politics of Touch in Contemporary Western European Cinema Muriel Cormican
Valerie Weinstein.
Antisemitism in Film Comedy in Nazi Germany Priscilla Layne
Women in German Prize Winners (2020)
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