Download or read book Conceptions of Postwar German Masculinity written by Roy Jerome and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2001-04-19 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking work examines the long-ignored issue of masculinity and masculine identity in German culture, society, and literature, from 1945 to the present. Utilizing emerging men's studies theories, feminism, psychoanalysis, and literary studies, the book provides a resource for understanding how masculinity informs homosocial, male-female, and adult-child relations. Psychologists, literary scholars, and philosophers survey the current state of men's studies in the German academy, the representation of masculinity in postwar German literature, the psychic legacies of fascism, Turkish-German masculinities, Jewish-German masculinities, Neo-Nazi masculine identity, and the relationship between child sexual abuse and masculinity. Most significantly, the book offers tools for critical reflection on how men maintain power over women and other less powerful groups.
Download or read book Conceptions of Postwar German Masculinity written by Roy Jerome and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-05-16 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines masculinity in German culture, society, and literature from 1945 to the present.
Download or read book New Masculinities in Contemporary German Literature written by Frauke Matthes and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-13 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complex nexus between masculinity and national identity has long troubled, but also fascinated the German cultural imagination. This has become apparent again since the fall of the Iron Curtain and the turn of the millennium when transnational developments have noticeably shaped Germany’s self-perception as a nation. This book examines the social and political impact of transnationalism with reference to current discourses of masculinity in novels by five contemporary male German-language authors. Specifically, it analyses how conceptions of the masculine interact with those of nationality, ethnicity, and otherness in the selected texts and assesses the new masculinities that result from those interactions. Exploring how local discourses of masculinity become part of transnational contexts in contemporary writing, the book moves a consideration of masculinities from a "native" into a transnational sphere.
Download or read book Joseph Beuys and Postwar German Mansulinity written by Sarah Rose Young and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project examines the role of masculinity in the artwork and persona of postwar West German artist Joseph Beuys. Specifically, I am analyzing how Beuys' construction of himself as a shaman-like figure in both his performance pieces, which he calls "Actions," and in his public persona relates to concepts of masculinity that were being negotiated in the postwar West German state. After World War Two, West Germany had to renegotiate their place within the western world and especially in relation to the increasing cultural hegemony of the United States. For Beuys, rising to prominence in the early 1960s in the neo-avant-garde, this means positioning oneself as a German artist in an art world that has become dominated by American artists. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the American Abstract Expressionists rose to prominence within the art world with their large-scale, expressive paintings such as the drip paintings of Jackson Pollock. The mainly male Abstract Expressionists also embodied a type of masculinity characterized by the heroic individualism of the "anti-intellectual man of action." I argue that Beuys positioned himself in opposition to these Americanized ideals through a negotiation of the concepts of Germaness and masculinity in his public persona and performances..
Download or read book New Masculinities in Contemporary German Literature written by Frauke Matthes and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Frauke Matthes probes themes of difference, desire and cultural (dis-)location in contemporary German fiction, illuminating the ambivalent and varied realities of masculinity in compelling readings of texts by five prominent male authors. With its welcome emphasis on writers who are culturally 'other' to a hegemonic German mainstream, the study diversifies and deepens critical perspectives on lived and imagined masculinities within the wider landscape of global neoliberal ecocidal capitalism.'--Caitríona Ní Dhúill, Professor of German, University College Cork, Ireland The complex nexus between masculinity and national identity has long troubled, but also fascinated the German cultural imagination. This has become apparent again since the fall of the Iron Curtain and the turn of the millennium when transnational developments have noticeably shaped Germany's self-perception as a nation. This book examines the social and political impact of transnationalism with reference to current discourses of masculinity in novels by five contemporary male German-language authors. Specifically, it analyses how conceptions of the masculine interact with those of nationality, ethnicity, and otherness in the selected texts and assesses the new masculinities that result from those interactions. Exploring how local discourses of masculinity become part of transnational contexts in contemporary writing, the book moves a consideration of masculinities from a "native" into a transnational sphere. Frauke Matthes is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is the author and co-editor of several books and articles on contemporary German-language writing, masculinities in literature, and transnational and world literature. .
Download or read book A Multiplicity of Masculinities written by Faruk Pašić and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This investigation focuses roughly on the interval between 1870 and 1890, which can be described as the formative period of the German Empire. It seeks to understand how the development of a national identity in Imperial Germany contributed to the notion that certain expressions of masculinity formed the "German character," i.e., the notion that there was a particular German masculinity. Chapter one offers an examination of Frau Erdmuthens Zwillingssöhne by Louise von François, Colberg, Er soll dein Herr sein, and Das Glück von Rothenburg by Paul Heyse, and Ein Held der Feder and Am Altar by E. Werner. While each of these writers addressed a slightly different readership, they were all widely read and their works therefore can be understood as a reflection of popular taste in this period. The analyses of these six works demonstrate how writers in the 1870s and 1880s were able to integrate into their texts the notions of masculinity put forth by, among others, Ehrenberg and Siede, combining the qualities of a strong will, physical prowess, and spiritual or cultural vigor to shape their male characters. These literary representations of German men implicitly attribute the foundation of the unified state to the strength of German masculinity and thereby create an image of German manhood that answers the fears of early-nineteenth-century texts lamenting a general weakness of the male population and thus the vulnerability of the nation. In the following chapter, the male figures in Theodor Fontane's Ellernklipp and Mathilde Möhring, Wilhelm Raabe's Das Odfeld and Wunnigel, and Theodor Storm's Draussen im Heidedorf and Hans und Heinz Kirch are shown to be countertypes to the German masculine stereotypes observed in chapter one. While Fontane, Raabe, and Storm remain ambivalent in their support or subversion of hegemonic models of masculinity in these texts, it is quite clear that the stereotype does not constitute for them the sole acceptable model of masculine behavior for German men. Using Walter Erhart's concept of masculine narratives, this chapter shows that even those characters that adhere to that model are often depicted as incapable of continuing their genealogical line or as meeting the same fate as the characters that do not adhere to it. The writers in this group thus problematize the notion that there is one "proper" type of German masculinity. Chapter three offers a renewed look at a work by Fontane, Cécile, and two by Storm, Eine Halligfahrt and Bötjer Basch. It reevaluates these works as regional literature that presents the characters' attainment of masculinity as intimately tied to their allegiance with one particular region within the empire. The texts thus subvert the idea of a single prevailing German masculinity and instead project a multiplicity of masculinities in Imperial Germany. At the same time they do not necessarily undermine the hegemonic stereotype, but they highlight the significance of Heimat as defined by local landscape and geography for the construction of gender identity.
Download or read book Threatened Masculinity from British Fiction to Cold War German Cinema written by Joseph P. Willis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of the Cold War on German male identities can be seen in the nation’s cinematic search for a masculine paradigm that rejected the fate-centered value system of its National- Socialist past while also recognizing that German males once again had become victims of fate and fatalism, but now within the value system of the Soviet and American hegemonies that determined the fate of Cold War Germany and Central Europe. This monograph is the first to demonstrate that this Cold War cinematic search sought out a meaningful masculine paradigm through film adaptations of late-Victorian and Edwardian male writers who likewise sought a means of self-determination within a hegemonic structure that often left few opportunities for personal agency. In contrast to the scholarly practice of exploring categories of modern masculinity such as Victorian imperialist manliness or German Cold-War male identity as distinct from each other, this monograph offers an important, comparative corrective that brings forward an extremely influential century-long trajectory of threatened masculinity. For German Cold-War masculinity, lessons were to be learned from history—namely, from late-Victorian and Edwardian models of manliness. Cold War Germans, like the Victorians before them, had to confront the unknowns of a new world without fear or hesitation. In a Cold-War mentality where nuclear technology and geographic distance had trumped face-to-face confrontation between East and West, Cold-War German masculinity sought alternatives to the insanity of mutual nuclear destruction by choosing not just to confront threats, but to resolve threats directly through personal agency and self-determination.
Download or read book The Holocaust and Masculinities written by Björn Krondorfer and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically assesses the experiences of men in the Holocaust. In recent decades, scholarship has turned to the role of gender in the Holocaust, but rarely has it critically investigated the experiences of men as gendered beings. Beyond the clear observation that most perpetrators of murder were male, men were also victims, survivors, bystanders, beneficiaries, accomplices, and enablers; they negotiated roles as fathers, spouses, community leaders, prisoners, soldiers, professionals, authority figures, resistors, chroniclers, or ideologues. This volume examines men’s experiences during the Holocaust. Chapters first focus on the years of genocide: Jewish victims of National Socialism, Nazi soldiers, Catholic priests enlisted in the Wehrmacht, Jewish doctors in the ghettos, men from the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz, and Muselmänner in the camps. The book then moves to the postwar context: German Protestant theologians, Jewish refugees, non-Jewish Austrian men, and Jewish masculinities in the United States. The contributors articulate the male experience in the Holocaust as something obvious (the everywhere of masculinities) and yet invisible (the nowhere of masculinities), lending a new perspective on one of modernity’s most infamous chapters. “This is a carefully constructed and field-defining work that will influence a generation of new scholars and be cited and discussed for years to come. It builds on the existing scholarship on women and the Holocaust in a way that enriches our understanding of the intersectionality of masculinity and femininity.” — Zoë Waxman, author of Women in the Holocaust: A Feminist History “The contributors articulate some of the challenges for studying masculinity with regards to victims of the Holocaust, making a convincing case for the benefits to be gained from doing so.” — Clayton J. Whisnant, author of Queer Identities and Politics in Germany: A History, 1880–1945
Download or read book The Inability to Love written by Agnes C. Mueller and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Inability to Love borrows its title from Alexander and Margarete Mitscherlich’s 1967 landmark book The Inability to Mourn, which discussed German society’s lack of psychological reckoning with the Holocaust. Challenging that notion, Agnes Mueller turns to recently published works by prominent contemporary German, non-Jewish writers to examine whether there has been a thorough engagement with German history and memory. She focuses on literature that invokes Jews, Israel, and the Holocaust. Mueller’s aim is to shed light on pressing questions concerning German memories of the past, and on German images of Jews in Germany at a moment that s ideologically and historically fraught.
Download or read book White Rebels in Black written by Priscilla Layne and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the appropriation of black popular culture as a symbol of rebellion in postwar Germany
Download or read book Film and Memory in East Germany written by Anke Pinkert and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinks the politics of public memory in East German film
Download or read book Masculinities in Theory written by Todd W. Reeser and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-01-25 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of the essential textbook on masculinity and representations of masculinity in the context of gender and cultural studies Popular dialogues on gender and sexuality have evolved rapidly in recent decades, and students are finding new and exciting opportunities to examine gender and sexuality from critical perspectives. Masculinities in Theory: An Introduction, Second Edition synthesizes existing approaches to the study of masculinity and presents new theoretical models that enable a deeper and more nuanced investigation of the diverse forms of masculine identity. In this text, students are invited to investigate the constructs of masculinity they encounter in their own lives, offering a way for students to parse the varied and conflicting views on masculinity they may encounter in their communities, in the media, and in history. Now in its second edition, Masculinities in Theory has been fully updated to bring this overview of masculinity studies up to date with modern views and contemporary contexts. The text shines a light on new cases for examination drawn from popular culture and current events, including the masculinities of Trump and Putin, Indigenous masculinities, and the influence of the Black Lives Matter movement on concepts of masculinity. An entirely new chapter on trans masculinities is complemented by a thoroughly revised chapter on the experience of affective masculinities. This valuable work: Covers key theories applicable to gender studies in interdisciplinary humanities and social science programs Demonstrates the complex nature of masculinity from cultural and theoretical perspectives Examines how the work of Butler, Derrida, Foucault, and other theorists can be used to interpret and analyze masculinity Discusses feminist, queer, transgender, post-colonial, and ethnic studies in relation to masculinity Offering a clear, concise, and comprehensive introduction to the field, Masculinities in Theory, Second Edition is the ideal textbook for courses on masculinity, as well as general courses in gender studies, sexuality studies, and cultural studies. It is also an excellent resource for interdisciplinary courses in literature, art history, film, communications, linguistics, sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and philosophy programs.
Download or read book Gendering Post 1945 German History written by Karen Hagemann and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although “entanglement” has become a keyword in recent German history scholarship, entangled studies of the postwar era have largely limited their scope to politics and economics across the two Germanys while giving short shrift to social and cultural phenomena like gender. At the same time, historians of gender in Germany have tended to treat East and West Germany in isolation, with little attention paid to intersections and interrelationships between the two countries. This groundbreaking collection synthesizes the perspectives of entangled history and gender studies, bringing together established as well as upcoming scholars to investigate the ways in which East and West German gender relations were culturally, socially, and politically intertwined.
Download or read book Domestic Disputes written by Necia Chronister and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domestic Disputes is the first monograph in German studies to offer a critical examination of the home ownership crisis in the former East Germany that resulted from unification policy, taking as its focus news media, made-for-television movies, cinematic releases, and prose fiction that depict property disputes between former East and West Germans. In the cultural productions discussed in this book, anxieties about social disenfranchisement through unification policy are dramatized in narratives in which Westerners acquire, or attempt to acquire, property in the former East Germany. Each chapter addresses a different type of narrative that has emerged to frame those anxieties, including those of neocolonial Western takeover, the engagement with difficult family histories, masculinity crises in the West, and the corporatization of home. Domestic Disputes is the first book-length study to outline the way in which homes were awarded to individuals and families as the former East Germany privatized and to offer in-depth examinations of the narratives that emerged from that social phenomenon.
Download or read book Make Me a Man written by Sikata Banerjee and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the ideals of masculine Hinduism—and the corresponding feminine ideals—that have built the Indian nation, and explores their consequences.
Download or read book Fighter Worker and Family Man written by Sebastian Huebel and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Nazis came to power, they used various strategies to expel German Jews from social, cultural, and economic life. Fighter, Worker, and Family Man focuses on the gendered experiences and discrimination that German-Jewish men faced between 1933 and 1941. Sebastian Huebel argues that Jewish men’s gender identities, intersecting with categories of ethnicity, race, class, and age, underwent a profound process of marginalization that destabilized accustomed ways of performing masculinity. At the same time, in their attempts to sustain their conceptions of masculinity these men maintained agency and developed coping strategies that prevented their full-scale emasculation. Huebel draws on a rich archive of diaries, letters, and autobiographies to interpret the experiences of these men, focusing on their roles as soldiers and protectors, professionals and breadwinners, and parents and husbands. Fighter, Worker, and Family Man sheds light on how the Nazis sought to emasculate Jewish men through propaganda, the law, and violence, and how in turn German-Jewish men were able to defy emasculation and adapt – at least temporarily – to their marginalized status as men.
Download or read book Sex Thugs and Rock n Roll written by Mark Fenemore and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living on the frontline of the Cold War, young people in East Germany were subject to a number of competing influences: the culture of their parents, the new official culture taught in schools, and new youth cultures. Fenemore presents an account of what it was like in the 1950s and 1960s.
