German #Metoo: Rape Cultures and Resistance, 1770-2020 (Women and Gender in German Studies) - Hardcover

Buch 7 von 11: Women and Gender in German Studies
 
9781640141353: German #Metoo: Rape Cultures and Resistance, 1770-2020 (Women and Gender in German Studies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1640141359 ISBN 13: 9781640141353
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd., 2022

Inhaltsangabe

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. With 16 essays from established and emerging scholars, 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.

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Edited by Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Anne Simpson

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Verlag
Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1640141359
ISBN 13 
9781640141353
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
422
Herausgeber
Krimmer Elisabeth, Simpson Patricia Anne
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