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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"German women"”.
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Curating the collector: exploring representations of early modern German women book collectors (1650-1780)
… examines representations of book collecting by German women in the early modern period in order to explore the role of gender in this activity. Portrayals of book collectors in the modern and early modern eras offer examples of how this identity is constructed, particularly in the underlying …
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Kind Girls, Evil Sisters, And Wise Women: Coded Gender Discourse In Literary Fairy Tales By German Women In The 19th Century
… dissertation is an analysis of fairy tales by German women in late eighteenth and nineteenth century. Although hundreds of women published fairy tales in Germany in the nineteenth century, they remain absent from current scholarship. Recent work by scholars Shawn Jarvis and Jeannine Blackwell …
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Recognizing Race: The Impact of Twentieth-Century Feminist Movements on Race Relations in West Germany
<p>After World War II, many West German women had a difficult time coming to terms with the atrocities that the National Socialist leadership committed during that war, as well as their own participation in the Party. Discussions of the roles of women within twentieth-century society began to grow …
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Nazi "chic"? : Fashioning women in the Third Reich
During the Third Reich, women’s clothing became a site of contentious debate. Clothing, which the Nazis hoped would serve as a visible sign of inclusion into – or exclusion from – the Volksgemeinschaft, the national community, instead became a divisive wedge between the government and the majority …
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Flieder, 1945 / Lilac, 2015 : visibility, memory, gender : writing and re-imagining National Socialist atrocity for the stage
… concentration camps of Buchenwald in the German towns of Altenburg and Meuselwitz and the fate of the – mostly female – prisoners, forced to work in the factories of the arms manufacturer HASAG. The dissertation itself consists of two parts: In the stage play "Flieder, 1945 / Lilac, 2015", …
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Memorializing Wartime Rape During the Second World War
… the wake of World War II, the widespread rape of women, has been largely absent from this commemorative landscape. Now that rape is considered a crime of war, there have been isolated attempts to establish memorials for victims of rape. These attempts have appeared in different geographies, which …
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When Wombs Became Weapons: Women, Policy, and Propaganda in the Third Reich
… to convey certain gender-specific policy aims to women living in the Third Reich. This will be accomplished by using the novel scholarly approach (referred to as the New Intentionalist approach) that these policy aims were not only fulfilling a State-centered need, but they also were reflecting a …
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Textual Politics: Women Authors Rewrite the Enlightenment, 1790--1805
This study discusses four British, French, and German women authors from the late eighteenth and the early nineteenth centuries who wrote novels and plays that responded quite explicitly to texts written earlier in the eighteenth century by major male writers. The choice of texts by Karoline von …
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Double bind: female subjectivity in selected works by Elfriede Jelinek and Anne Duden
… which engage with this concept in texts by German women writers have been published. A clear preference is still demonstrated within the field of German Studies, either for subjectivity to appear as one theme among a number of others, or for studies to focus on the complete oeuvre of an …
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Gender Analysis of Politics, Economics and Culture of Korean Reunification: Toward a Feminist Theological Foundation for Reunified Society
… on cultural and religious factors. I adopt the German reunification as a case study. The German reunification process provides Koreans with lessons about the negative changes in the status of German women since the German reunification caused extreme instances of the loss of status and economic …
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The Cultural Memory Of German Victimhood In Post-1990 Popular German Literature And Television
<p>My dissertation analyzes the representation of Germans as victims of the Third Reich and the Second World War in post-1990 German memory. After unification, there no longer were two states that could each blame the other as the heir of National Socialism and this past had to be renegotiated. The …
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Dynamic Outcomes: Effects of Job Mobility in Germany and the UK
… of different forms of job mobility in the UK and Germany during the precrisis years of 2000-2008. The three aims act as configurations of the mobility-outcomes relationship, shedding light on how it shapes worker action. Regarding mobility types, inter-firm mobility leads to subjective gains, but …
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Solidarity versus Sisterhood: Women's Issues, Feminism and Potential in Poland
Exploring the history and trajectory of women's issues and activism in Poland, this work begins discussing the early twentieth century, moving through to the time period of the Solidarity trade union movement, continuing through the political transitions during the 1990s and ending in the present …
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Metamorphosis and fairy tale tropes in Christa Wolf’s Patterns of Childhood
… study is a sociohistorical analysis of East German writer Christa Wolf’s use of fairy tale tropes in her novel Patterns of Childhood, first published in German in 1976 in East Germany as Kindheitsmuster. Wolf uses fairy tale tropes to explore themes that she could not write about openly under …