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Violence Elsewhere 1

Imagining Distant Violence in Germany 1945-2001

By: Clare Bielby,Mererid Puw Davies

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Violence Elsewhere 1

Imagining Distant Violence in Germany 1945-2001

By: Clare Bielby,Mererid Puw Davies

Explores what postwar German representations of violence in other places and times tell us about Germany. Germany's 20th-century history has made imagining and representing violence in German culture especially challenging: it has made certain constructions of violence unspeakable, even unthinkable. As a result, new ways of thinking about violence in postwar German culture are needed. One such approach is critical analysis of "violence elsewhere," that is, representations in literature, art, and film of violence in distant, imagined or temporally distinct times and places. Such representations have offered Germans a stage on which to imagine violence. Moreover, German representations of "violence elsewhere" are simultaneously images of Germany itself, revealing something about otherwise submerged or deeply encoded meanings and functions of violence in German culture. This volume explores what representations of "violence elsewhere" tell us about Germany. Its essays consider cultural products that arose from East, West, and reunified Germany and that imagine violence in Latin America, Vietnam, Cambodia, the USA, and the Middle East, as well as in the respective "other" German state and in the German past. Drawing on film, literary, gender, cultural, and postcolonial studies as well as visual culture, history, and life writing, they also introduce theoretical perspectives that are transferable beyond German Studies. As such, they allow us to reflect more broadly on relationships between violence, culture, community, and the creation of identities. Edited by Clare Bielby and Mererid Puw Davies. Contributors: Seán Allan, Martin Brady, Evelien Geerts, Katharina Karcher, J.J. Long, Ernest Schonfield, and Katherine Stone. On publication the chapter "Problematizing Political Violence in the Federal Republic of Germany: A Hauntological Analysis of the NSU Terror and a Hyper-Exceptionalized "9/11" is available as Open Access under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND"--

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Boydell & Brewer

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1640141146

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Sisters in Arms

Militant Feminisms in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1968

By: Katharina Karcher

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Militant Feminisms in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1968

By: Katharina Karcher

Few figures in modern German history are as central to the public memory of radical protest than Ulrike Meinhof, but she was only the most prominent of the countless German women—and militant male feminists—who supported and joined in revolutionary actions from the 1960s onward. Sisters in Arms gives a bracing account of how feminist ideas were enacted by West German leftist organizations from the infamous Red Army Faction to less well-known groups such as the Red Zora. It analyzes their confrontational and violent tactics in challenging the abortion ban, opposing violence against women, and campaigning for solidarity with Third World women workers. Though these groups often diverged ideologically and tactically, they all demonstrated the potency of militant feminism within postwar protest movements.

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Berghahn Books

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1785335359

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9781785335358

A Taste of Power

Food and American Identities

By: Katharina Vester

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A Taste of Power

Food and American Identities

By: Katharina Vester

Since the founding of the United States, culinary texts and practices have played a crucial role in the making of cultural identities and social hierarchies. A Taste of Power examines culinary writing and practices as forces for the production of social order and, at the same time, points of cultural resistance. Culinary writing has helped shape dominant ideas of nationalism, gender, and sexuality, suggesting that eating right is a gateway to becoming an American, a good citizen, an ideal man, or a perfect wife and mother. In this brilliant interdisciplinary work, Katharina Vester examines how cookbooks became a way for women to participate in nation-building before they had access to the vote or public office, for Americans to distinguish themselves from Europeans, for middle-class authors to assert their class privileges, for men to claim superiority over women in the kitchen, and for lesbian authors to insert themselves into the heteronormative economy of culinary culture. A Taste of Power engages in close reading of a wide variety of sources and genres to uncover the intersections of food, politics, and privilege in American culture.

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Univ of California Press

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0520960602

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9780520960602

Photo Guide, Zugspitze, German Alps

The Mountain Named After a Train

By: Katharina Foxx

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Photo Guide, Zugspitze, German Alps

The Mountain Named After a Train

By: Katharina Foxx

The Zugspitze, at 2,962 metres above sea level, is the highest peak of the Wetterstein Mountains as well as the highest mountain in Germany. It lies south of the town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and the border between Germany and Austria runs over its western summit. The art book consists of illustrations of the mountains, Eibsee, infrastructure, and villages around the mountains, namely, the main promenade, walkways, shopping areas, the important sights and many unique photos which you would never see in a simple guide. The photos of the Albums were not edited in any graphical software, so, the author wanted to show you the real picture of the area you visit, so as it looks in reality.

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8087655249

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Women in the Metropolis

Gender and Modernity in Weimar Culture

By: Katharina von Ankum

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Women in the Metropolis

Gender and Modernity in Weimar Culture

By: Katharina von Ankum

Bringing together the work of scholars in many disciplines, Women in the Metropolis provides a comprehensive introduction to women's experience of modernism and urbanization in Weimar Germany. It shows women as active participants in artistic, social, and political movements and documents the wide range of their responses to the multifaceted urban culture of Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s. Examining a variety of media ranging from scientific writings to literature and the visual arts, the authors trace gendered discourses as they developed to make sense of and regulate emerging new images of femininity. Besides treating classic films such as Metropolis and Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, the articles discuss other forms of mass culture, including the fashion industry and the revue performances of Josephine Baker. Their emphasis on women's critical involvement in the construction of their own modernity illustrates the significance of the Weimar cultural experience and its relevance to contemporary gender, German, film, and cultural studies.

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052091760X

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Sisters in Arms

Militant Feminisms in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1968

By: Katharina Karcher

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Militant Feminisms in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1968

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Gender, Emancipation, and Political Violence

Rethinking the Legacy of 1968

By: Sarah Colvin,Katharina Karcher

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Gender, Emancipation, and Political Violence

Rethinking the Legacy of 1968

By: Sarah Colvin,Katharina Karcher

This volume presents and interrogates both theoretical and artistic expressions of the revolutionary, militant spirit associated with 1968 and the aftermath, in the specific context of gender. The contributors explore political-philosophical discussions of the legitimacy of violence, the gender of aggression and peaceability, and the contradictions of counter violence; but also women's artistic and creative interventions, which have rarely been considered. Together the chapters provide and provoke a wide-ranging rethink of how we read not only 1968 but more generally the relationship between gender, political violence, art and emancipation. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of protest and violence in the fields of history, politics and international relations, sociology, cultural studies, and women's studies.

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Routledge

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036747171X

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Violence Elsewhere 1

Imagining Distant Violence in Germany 1945-2001

By: Clare Bielby,Mererid Puw Davies

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Imagining Distant Violence in Germany 1945-2001

By: Clare Bielby,Mererid Puw Davies

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Book's by Katharina Karcher

Violence Elsewhere 1

Violence Elsewhere 1

Sisters in Arms

Sisters in Arms

A Taste of Power

A Taste of Power

Photo Guide, Zugspitze, German Alps

Photo Guide, Zugspitze, German Alps

Women in the Metropolis

Women in the Metropolis

Sisters in Arms

Sisters in Arms

Gender, Emancipation, and Political Violence

Gender, Emancipation, and Political Violence

Violence Elsewhere 1

Violence Elsewhere 1

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