Women and Death 3: Women's Representations of Death in German Culture Since 1500
In Western culture, women are often linked with death, perhaps because they are traditionally constructed as an unknowable "other." The first two Women and Death volumes investigate ideas about death and the feminine as represented in German culture since 1500, focusing, respectively, on the representation of women as victims and killers and the idea of the woman warrior, and confirming that women who kill or die violent or untimely deaths exercise fascination even as they pose a threat. The...
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Studies representations of women and death by women to see whether and how they differ from patriarchal versions.
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Anna Richards Richards, Anna 11 Practicing Piety: Representations of Women's Dying in German Funeral Sermons of the Early Modern Period Jill Bepler Bepler, Jill 122 "Ich sterbe": The Construction of the Dying Self in the Advance Preparations for Death of Lutheran Women in Early Modern Germany Judith P. Aikin Aikin, Judith P. 313 The "New Mythology": Myth and Death in Karoline von Gunderrode's Literary Work Barbara Becker-Cantarino Becker-Cantarino, Barbara 514 The Murderess on Stage: Christine Westphalen's Charlotte Corday (1804) Stephanie Hilger Hilger, Stephanie 715 "Ob im Tode mein Ich geboren wird?": The Representation of the Widow in Hedwig Dohm's "Werde, die du bist" (1894) Abigail Dunn Dunn, Abigail 886 The Figure of Judith in Works by German Women Writers between 1895 and 1921 Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly Watanabe-O'Kelly, Helen 1017 Lola Doesn't: Cinema, Jouissance, and the Avoidance of Murder and Death Simon Richter Richter, Simon 1168 Death, Being, and the Place of Comedy in Representations of Death Stephanie Bird Bird, Stephanie 1349 "Liebe ist ein Kunstwerk": The Appeal to Gaspara Stampa in Ingeborg Bachmann's Todesarten Aine McMurtry McMurtry, Aine 15210 TV Nation: The Representation of Death in Warfare in Works by Peter Handke and Elfriede Jelinek Elisabeth Krimmer Krimmer, Elisabeth 174Works Cited 193Notes on the Contributors 213Index 217
