{"title":"Sexualized Violence and Racialized Others: Syrian Refugee Activism and Constructions of Difference Immediately after Cologne","authors":"Emily Frazier-Rath","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2021.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2021.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this article I analyze the work of refugee activist group Syrer gegen Sexismus (Syrians against Sexism), whose members were active in early 2016 immediately following the so-called Cologne attacks. In so doing I demonstrate the kinds of opportunities refugees—particularly refugee men coded as Muslim—had to fight sexualized violence against women, given the restrictive and racialized public discourse around nation, race, gender, and difference in Germany at the time. Based on my reading of the group’s activist engagements, both online and in public, I argue that refugee men in particular faced limitations as they sought to address and fight sexualized violence against women in the German context. In addition, by focusing on refugee activist responses to Cologne, I show how racialized anti-refugee discourse creates limitations for activism aimed at ending sexualized violence.","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"81 1","pages":"110 - 84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82855330","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":"Protest und Verweigerung/Protest and Refusal: Neue Tendenzen in der deutschen Literatur seit 1989/New Trends in German Literature since 1989 ed. by Hans Adler and Sonja E. Klocke (review)","authors":"Doris McGonagill","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2021.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2021.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"61 1","pages":"111 - 113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84966087","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":"Das Rote Wien: Schlüsseltexte der Zweiten Wiener Moderne, 1919–1934 by Rob McFarland, Georg Spitaler and Ingo Zechner (review)","authors":"Viktoria Pötzl","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2021.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2021.0019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":"123 - 125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85827186","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":"Writing the Self, Creating Community: German Women Authors and the Literary Sphere, 1750–1850 ed. by Elisabeth Krimmer and Lauren Nossett (review)","authors":"B. Muellner","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2021.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2021.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"36 1","pages":"119 - 121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74117200","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":"“Most Marriages Are Unhappy”: From Elsa Asenijeff’s Unschuld (1901) to Today’s Postfeminism","authors":"E. Hoffmann","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2021.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2021.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article explores Elsa Asenijeff’s collection of short stories Unschuld: Ein modernes Mädchenbuch (1901; Innocence: A Modern Book for Girls, 2018) in the context of the cultural and societal landscape of Wilhelmine Germany and in relation to contemporary analytical frameworks associated with postfeminism. Asenijeff’s text undermines Mädchenliteratur (literature for girls and young women) as a genre that traditionally regards heterosexual love and marriage as the goals of female adolescent development. By contrast, Unschuld exposes the bourgeois family as a key site where patriarchal power is (re)established and makes visible the realities for women and girls living under patriarchal authority in Wilhelmine Germany. This article places Unschuld into dialogue with core features of postfeminism, among others the (self-)scrutiny of women’s bodies. This transhistorical reading emphasizes the pervasiveness of patriarchal power as well as the imbrication of literature for young women and girls in the production of hegemonic femininity.","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":"1 - 26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87075088","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":"Did You Know Facebook Has Sixty Genders? Trans*Humiliation as a Performative Politics of Right-Wing Women","authors":"Johanna Schuster-Craig","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2021.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2021.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Beatrix von Storch, Frauke Petry, and Alice Weidel manage their queerness as conservative female politicians in a right-wing party by engaging in a form of performative politics I call trans*humiliation. Trans*humiliation mixes gleeful attempts to humiliate with a pedanticism that aims to make sense of the revulsion and confusion produced by visibly queer bodies as well as abstract discussions of gender and sexuality as a spectrum. Despite the politicians' attempts to manage their identities by using anti-genderist strategies and trans*humiliating tactics, their appropriation of a masculine subject position does not protect these politicians from losing their elite positions as the Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany) becomes more radical.","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":"138 - 162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85668967","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":"Today, Tomorrow, and In-Between: Straub/Huillet, the Schoenbergs, and the Gendered Micropolitics of Operatic Performance in Von heute auf morgen","authors":"Kevin S. Amidon","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2021.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2021.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Artists who have confronted the politics of collaborative theater have been both drawn to and repelled by opera, intrigued by its aesthetic possibilities, its suspect politics, and its economic entanglements. Central to opera's fascination has also been its complex and manifestly gendered production of texts, voices, and performances. This essay explores the 1929 one-act opera Von heute auf morgen by the librettist-composer team of Gertrud and Arnold Schoenberg, and a collaborative filmic performance of it in the 1996 film of the same name by the directorial-production team of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub (musical direction by Michael Gielen). These two documents of operatic collaboration, along with the paired intertexts made up of the Straub/Huillet-Gielen film version of Arnold Schoenberg's Moses und Aron (1974–75), interrogate the complex field of attention to reveal its links to the aesthetics of gender, performance, and agency. Thus emerges an essential performative micropolitics embodying potential resistance to the opera's political economy of gendered domination.","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":"110 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81027722","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":"Recalcitrance, Resistance, and Revolt in Daniel Casper von Lohenstein's Ibrahim Sultan","authors":"Isabella Holt","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2021.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2021.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay reads the play Ibrahim Sultan (1673) by the German baroque writer Daniel Casper von Lohenstein as a drama of female resistance. While Sultan Ibrahim represents political and erotic despotism, reflecting early modern orientalist tropes, the female characters successfully defy his tyranny and initiate a revolt inside the palace and outside, which finally leads to his deposition. Lohenstein presents female characters who perform resistance to a despotic Sultan and thus offers a more complex understanding of women's political agency in the early modern period. Moreover, by depicting the Ottoman Empire as what Hugo Grotius defined as a better nation, and one able to free itself from despotism, Lohenstein himself performs resistance to a mere derogation of the Ottomans. The author stresses parallels between \"Western\" and \"Eastern\" issues (such as the use and abuse of power) and hence advocates for a universalistic political and moral agenda.","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"15 - 37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78318933","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":"Special Issue: Performing Resistance","authors":"Caroline Weist, S. E. Jackson","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2021.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2021.0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"81 1","pages":"1 - 14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88532467","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}