Women in German Expressionism
Gender, Sexuality, Activism
Published on 7. August 2023
Book
Hardback
378 pages
978-0-472-13339-0 (ISBN)
Description
This collection, for the first time, explores women's self-conceptions and representations of women's and gender roles in society in their own Expressionist works. How did women approach themes commonly considered to be characteristic of the Expressionist movement, and did they address other themes or aesthetics and styles not currently represented in the canon? Women in German Expressionism centers its analysis on gender, together with difference, ethnicity, intersectionality, and identity, to approach artworks and texts in more nuanced ways, engaging solidly established theoretical and sociohistorical approaches that enhance and update our understanding of the material under investigation. It moves beyond the masculine, "New Man," viewpoint so firmly associated with German Expressionism and examines alternative, critical, and divergent interpretations of the changing world at the time. This collection seeks to broaden the theorization, scholarship, and reception of German Expressionism by-much belatedly-including works by women, and by shifting or redefining firmly established concepts and topics carrying only the imprint of male authors and artists to this day.
Reviews / Votes
"This volume does much to redress the impression that women in Expressionism were viewed first and foremost by their male colleagues...Instead they were creators, editors, activists, revolutionaries, drivers in their own right, and it's long past time to recover their legacies." -- Monatshefte "The collection of scholarly essays in Women in German Expressionism makes a real contribution to the field of German expressionist studies through profound critical questioning of received assumptions about the field's parameters, especially in literary expressionism, where women's voices have generally not received the attention as visual artists in revisionist studies." * Colin Rhodes, Art History *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Ann Arbor
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
12 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-472-13339-0 (9780472133390)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Anke Finger is Professor of German Studies, Media Studies, and Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut.
Julie Shoults is Visiting Lecturer in German and Women's & Gender Studies at Muhlenberg College.
Julie Shoults is Visiting Lecturer in German and Women's & Gender Studies at Muhlenberg College.
Content
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Flipping the Prostitute: German Expressionism Reexamined after 100 Years (Anke Finger and Julie Shoults)
Intimate Strangers: Women in German Expressionism (Barbara Wright)
Situating Female Authors in the Expressionist Movement:
Elsa Asenijeff and German Expressionism (Curtis Swope)
Between Bohemian Brotherhood and the New Man: On Gender and Writing in F. Graefin zu Reventlow's Herrn Dames Aufzeichnungen (1913) (Carola Daffner)
"Wenn man eine Frau ist": Female Protagonists as Social Revolutionaries (Corinne Painter)
On Their Own: Reconsidering Marianne Werefkin and Gabriele Muenter (Katy Klaasmeyer)
Gender & the Body:
Somaesthetics, Gender, and the Body as Media in Claire Goll's Racialized Expressionism (Anke Finger)
Gender, Sexuality and the Makeup of Feminine Beauty: Viennese Expressionist Ceramics and the Wieselthier Frauenkopf (Megan Brandow-Faller)
The Ecstasies of Mela Hartwig-Spira: Between Laughter and Terror (Aleksandra Kudryashova)
Sexuality - Beyond Mothers and Prostitutes:
Resituating Lu Maerten's Manifesto of Matriarchal Socialism in Expressionist Debates (Douglas Brent McBride)
Emmy Hennings: The Human Being as Woman (Nicole Shea)
Writing the Inner Strife: Emmy Hennings's Das Brandmal. Ein Tagebuch (1920) (Mirjam Berg)
Social Issues & Activism:
"The Time is Coming": Women Writers in the Expressionist Journal Die Aktion (1911-1932) (Catherine Smale)
Expressionism and "Female Insanity": The Lives and Works of Else Blankenhorn (1873-1920) and Elfriede Lohse-Waechtler (1899-1940) (Daniela Mueller)
Empathy for Outsiders in Women's Expressionist Literature (Julie Shoults)
Contributors
Index
Introduction: Flipping the Prostitute: German Expressionism Reexamined after 100 Years (Anke Finger and Julie Shoults)
Intimate Strangers: Women in German Expressionism (Barbara Wright)
Situating Female Authors in the Expressionist Movement:
Elsa Asenijeff and German Expressionism (Curtis Swope)
Between Bohemian Brotherhood and the New Man: On Gender and Writing in F. Graefin zu Reventlow's Herrn Dames Aufzeichnungen (1913) (Carola Daffner)
"Wenn man eine Frau ist": Female Protagonists as Social Revolutionaries (Corinne Painter)
On Their Own: Reconsidering Marianne Werefkin and Gabriele Muenter (Katy Klaasmeyer)
Gender & the Body:
Somaesthetics, Gender, and the Body as Media in Claire Goll's Racialized Expressionism (Anke Finger)
Gender, Sexuality and the Makeup of Feminine Beauty: Viennese Expressionist Ceramics and the Wieselthier Frauenkopf (Megan Brandow-Faller)
The Ecstasies of Mela Hartwig-Spira: Between Laughter and Terror (Aleksandra Kudryashova)
Sexuality - Beyond Mothers and Prostitutes:
Resituating Lu Maerten's Manifesto of Matriarchal Socialism in Expressionist Debates (Douglas Brent McBride)
Emmy Hennings: The Human Being as Woman (Nicole Shea)
Writing the Inner Strife: Emmy Hennings's Das Brandmal. Ein Tagebuch (1920) (Mirjam Berg)
Social Issues & Activism:
"The Time is Coming": Women Writers in the Expressionist Journal Die Aktion (1911-1932) (Catherine Smale)
Expressionism and "Female Insanity": The Lives and Works of Else Blankenhorn (1873-1920) and Elfriede Lohse-Waechtler (1899-1940) (Daniela Mueller)
Empathy for Outsiders in Women's Expressionist Literature (Julie Shoults)
Contributors
Index