Mad Mädchen : : Feminism and Generational Conflict in Recent German Literature and Film / / Margaret McCarthy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: McCarthy, Margaret,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (270 p.)

The last two decades have been transformational, often discordant ones for German feminism, as a new cohort of activists has come of age and challenged many of the movement’s strategic and philosophical orthodoxies. Mad Mädchen offers an incisive analysis of these trans-generational debates, identifying the mother-daughter themes and other tropes that have defined their representation in German literature, film, and media. Author Margaret McCarthy investigates female subjectivity as it processes political discourse to define itself through both differences and affinities among women. Ultimately, such a model suggests new ways of re-imagining feminist solidarity across generational, ethnic, and racial lines.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE German Feminism in the 2000s Brains, Bodies, and Bridges -- CHAPTER TWO Lost Objects, Monsters, and Melancholia in Zöe Jenny’s The Pollen Room, Alexa Hennig von Lange’s Relax, and Elke Naters’s Lies -- CHAPTER THREE Dialogical and Borderline Selfhood in Charlotte Roche’s Wetlands (2008) and Wrecked (2011) -- CHAPTER FOUR Girls Gone Wild Ulrike Meinhof, Uschi Obermaier, and Feminist Fantasies of ’68 -- CHAPTER FIVE Counter-Cinema, Crossing Bridges, and Future Feminisms: Christian Petzold’s The State I Am In (2000) and Fatih Akin’s The Edge of Heaven (2007) -- CHAPTER SIX Mutable Mädchen: On Screen and in the Streets -- Bibliography -- Index