{"title":"Event Cologne: Whiteness, Gender, and Germany's Ontological Insecurity","authors":"Sabine Hirschauer","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2022.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2022.0015","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Years after the reported New Year's Eve sexual attacks in Cologne in 2015, the Event Cologne remains widely interpreted as a tipping point in the country's migration discourse. This article deconstructs the prima facie logics of the Event Cologne's body politics through a feminist, ontological security lens. It sees the Event Cologne not as a causal occurrence. Rather, it needs to be more fully understood as an outcome, circulating through Germany's deeply racialized, white, and gendered ontological insecurities. This article offers a feminist, intersectional, and antiracist analysis that scrutinizes the ontologically insecure German state-self through what I call two modes of Western re-belonging: Germany's unique proximity to US hypermasculine, liberal militarism, and the country's enduring, racialized, white citizenship regimes.","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78025008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Steele, Juliane Schicker, Sabine Hirschauer, Zachary Fitzpatrick, Liz Ametsbichler, Mareike Herrmann, Miriam Schwarz, A. Bryant, Tiarra Cooper, C. Scott, Katharina Gerstenberger, Maureen O. Gallagher, R. Mcfarland, Simone Pfleger, A. L. Hill
{"title":"Editors' Introduction: Hope, Care, Possibility, Exhaustion","authors":"R. Steele, Juliane Schicker, Sabine Hirschauer, Zachary Fitzpatrick, Liz Ametsbichler, Mareike Herrmann, Miriam Schwarz, A. Bryant, Tiarra Cooper, C. Scott, Katharina Gerstenberger, Maureen O. Gallagher, R. Mcfarland, Simone Pfleger, A. L. Hill","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2022.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2022.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article reads a protofeminist critique of the nineteenth-century gender binary in Charlotte von Stein's lesser-known play, Die zwey Emilien (1803). This dramatic, inventive adaptation of Sophia Lee's melodramatic English novel, The Two Emilys (1795), features two seemingly opposite women, who simultaneously are virtually the same, to demonstrate the lack of space for the woman as individual in Stein's contemporary society. These women are coded as opposites with sometimes humorous, satirical, and outrageous language: one Emilie is the \"innocent angel\" committing \"innocent deceit,\" the other a \"wicked creature\" and \"cunning snake\" practicing \"nefarious deceit.\" Ultimately, I argue that Stein calls into question the deceptive social construct of woman that forever attempts to keep her in her place. This play contributes to the ongoing conversation among female authors who resisted the oppressive demands of feminine virtues.","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75036823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anneliese's House by Lou Andreas-Salomé (review)","authors":"Liz Ametsbichler","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2022.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2022.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84962129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sex between Body and Mind: Psychoanalysis and Sexology in the German-Speaking World, 1890s–1930s by Katie Sutton (review)","authors":"A. L. Hill","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2022.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2022.0027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88720017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender, Sex, and the Socialist Personality in Herrmann Zschoche's Sieben Sommersprossen (1978)","authors":"Juliane Schicker","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2022.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2022.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines the ways in which the DEFA film Sieben Sommersprossen (1978; Seven freckles) presents social norms pertaining to gender equality, relationships, and sexual intimacy as expected of teenagers in the GDR, and how these norms reflect on the concept of the socialist personality. It provides close readings of the plot juxtaposed with relevant publications and archival material to demonstrate how this young-adult film engages in discussions about the persistence of traditional gender roles while wrestling with intimate concerns honestly to promote an alternative set of socialist values that were not at odds with socialism per se but with certain values foregrounded by the political leadership. As such, the film criticizes the status quo in a way that resembles the reformist efforts of the 1980s, occupying as they did an interstitial position between social expectations and social change aimed at improving, or finding an alternative to, actually existing socialism in the GDR, the so-called Dritter Weg.","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80039500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"German Cinema in the Age of Neoliberalism by Hester Baer (review)","authors":"Mareike Herrmann","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2022.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2022.0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73302955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Problem of the Actress in Modern German Theater and Thought by S. E. Jackson (review)","authors":"C. Scott","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2022.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2022.0022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80656893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum by Katrin Sieg (review)","authors":"R. Mcfarland","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2022.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2022.0025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81518058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement by Tiffany N. Florvil (review)","authors":"A. Bryant","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2022.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2022.0020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77235493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Wer rechnet schon mit Lesern?\" Aufsätze zur Literatur by Ruth Klüger (review)","authors":"K. Gerstenberger","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2022.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2022.0023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82894153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}