Abstract:In this article I analyze the work of refugee activist group Syrer gegen Sexismus (Syrians against Sexism), whose members were active in early 2016 immediately following the so-called Cologne attacks. In so doing I demonstrate the kinds of opportunities refugees—particularly refugee men coded as Muslim—had to fight sexualized violence against women, given the restrictive and racialized public discourse around nation, race, gender, and difference in Germany at the time. Based on my reading of the group’s activist engagements, both online and in public, I argue that refugee men in particular faced limitations as they sought to address and fight sexualized violence against women in the German context. In addition, by focusing on refugee activist responses to Cologne, I show how racialized anti-refugee discourse creates limitations for activism aimed at ending sexualized violence.
摘要:在本文中，我分析了难民维权组织Syrer gegen Sexismus(叙利亚人反对性别歧视)的工作，该组织成员在2016年初所谓的科隆袭击事件发生后立即活跃起来。在这样做的过程中，我展示了难民——尤其是被归类为穆斯林的男性难民——在对抗针对女性的性暴力时所拥有的各种机会，考虑到当时德国围绕国家、种族、性别和差异的限制性和种族化的公共话语。根据我对该组织在网上和公开场合的积极活动的阅读，我认为，在德国背景下，难民男性在寻求解决和打击针对女性的性暴力时，尤其面临限制。此外，通过关注难民活动家对科隆事件的反应，我展示了种族化的反难民话语如何给旨在结束性暴力的行动主义带来限制。
{"title":"Sexualized Violence and Racialized Others: Syrian Refugee Activism and Constructions of Difference Immediately after Cologne","authors":"Emily Frazier-Rath","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2021.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2021.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this article I analyze the work of refugee activist group Syrer gegen Sexismus (Syrians against Sexism), whose members were active in early 2016 immediately following the so-called Cologne attacks. In so doing I demonstrate the kinds of opportunities refugees—particularly refugee men coded as Muslim—had to fight sexualized violence against women, given the restrictive and racialized public discourse around nation, race, gender, and difference in Germany at the time. Based on my reading of the group’s activist engagements, both online and in public, I argue that refugee men in particular faced limitations as they sought to address and fight sexualized violence against women in the German context. In addition, by focusing on refugee activist responses to Cologne, I show how racialized anti-refugee discourse creates limitations for activism aimed at ending sexualized violence.","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"81 1","pages":"110 - 84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82855330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Protest und Verweigerung/Protest and Refusal: Neue Tendenzen in der deutschen Literatur seit 1989/New Trends in German Literature since 1989 ed. by Hans Adler and Sonja E. Klocke (review)","authors":"Doris McGonagill","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2021.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2021.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"61 1","pages":"111 - 113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84966087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Das Rote Wien: Schlüsseltexte der Zweiten Wiener Moderne, 1919–1934 by Rob McFarland, Georg Spitaler and Ingo Zechner (review)","authors":"Viktoria Pötzl","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2021.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2021.0019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":"123 - 125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85827186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Writing the Self, Creating Community: German Women Authors and the Literary Sphere, 1750–1850 ed. by Elisabeth Krimmer and Lauren Nossett (review)","authors":"B. Muellner","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2021.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2021.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"36 1","pages":"119 - 121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74117200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article explores Elsa Asenijeff’s collection of short stories Unschuld: Ein modernes Mädchenbuch (1901; Innocence: A Modern Book for Girls, 2018) in the context of the cultural and societal landscape of Wilhelmine Germany and in relation to contemporary analytical frameworks associated with postfeminism. Asenijeff’s text undermines Mädchenliteratur (literature for girls and young women) as a genre that traditionally regards heterosexual love and marriage as the goals of female adolescent development. By contrast, Unschuld exposes the bourgeois family as a key site where patriarchal power is (re)established and makes visible the realities for women and girls living under patriarchal authority in Wilhelmine Germany. This article places Unschuld into dialogue with core features of postfeminism, among others the (self-)scrutiny of women’s bodies. This transhistorical reading emphasizes the pervasiveness of patriarchal power as well as the imbrication of literature for young women and girls in the production of hegemonic femininity.
{"title":"“Most Marriages Are Unhappy”: From Elsa Asenijeff’s Unschuld (1901) to Today’s Postfeminism","authors":"E. Hoffmann","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2021.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2021.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article explores Elsa Asenijeff’s collection of short stories Unschuld: Ein modernes Mädchenbuch (1901; Innocence: A Modern Book for Girls, 2018) in the context of the cultural and societal landscape of Wilhelmine Germany and in relation to contemporary analytical frameworks associated with postfeminism. Asenijeff’s text undermines Mädchenliteratur (literature for girls and young women) as a genre that traditionally regards heterosexual love and marriage as the goals of female adolescent development. By contrast, Unschuld exposes the bourgeois family as a key site where patriarchal power is (re)established and makes visible the realities for women and girls living under patriarchal authority in Wilhelmine Germany. This article places Unschuld into dialogue with core features of postfeminism, among others the (self-)scrutiny of women’s bodies. This transhistorical reading emphasizes the pervasiveness of patriarchal power as well as the imbrication of literature for young women and girls in the production of hegemonic femininity.","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":"1 - 26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87075088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Beatrix von Storch, Frauke Petry, and Alice Weidel manage their queerness as conservative female politicians in a right-wing party by engaging in a form of performative politics I call trans*humiliation. Trans*humiliation mixes gleeful attempts to humiliate with a pedanticism that aims to make sense of the revulsion and confusion produced by visibly queer bodies as well as abstract discussions of gender and sexuality as a spectrum. Despite the politicians' attempts to manage their identities by using anti-genderist strategies and trans*humiliating tactics, their appropriation of a masculine subject position does not protect these politicians from losing their elite positions as the Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany) becomes more radical.
摘要:Beatrix von Storch、Frauke Petry和Alice Weidel作为右翼政党中的保守女性政治家，通过一种我称之为变性羞辱的表演政治形式来管理自己的酷儿身份。对变性人的羞辱是一种混合了愉快的羞辱尝试和一种迂腐的态度，这种态度旨在理解明显的酷儿身体所产生的厌恶和困惑，以及对性别和性行为的抽象讨论。尽管政治家们试图通过使用反性别主义策略和羞辱变性人的策略来管理自己的身份，但随着德国另类选择党(Alternative fr Deutschland)变得更加激进，他们对男性主体地位的占有并不能保护这些政治家们不失去他们的精英地位。
{"title":"Did You Know Facebook Has Sixty Genders? Trans*Humiliation as a Performative Politics of Right-Wing Women","authors":"Johanna Schuster-Craig","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2021.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2021.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Beatrix von Storch, Frauke Petry, and Alice Weidel manage their queerness as conservative female politicians in a right-wing party by engaging in a form of performative politics I call trans*humiliation. Trans*humiliation mixes gleeful attempts to humiliate with a pedanticism that aims to make sense of the revulsion and confusion produced by visibly queer bodies as well as abstract discussions of gender and sexuality as a spectrum. Despite the politicians' attempts to manage their identities by using anti-genderist strategies and trans*humiliating tactics, their appropriation of a masculine subject position does not protect these politicians from losing their elite positions as the Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany) becomes more radical.","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":"138 - 162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85668967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Artists who have confronted the politics of collaborative theater have been both drawn to and repelled by opera, intrigued by its aesthetic possibilities, its suspect politics, and its economic entanglements. Central to opera's fascination has also been its complex and manifestly gendered production of texts, voices, and performances. This essay explores the 1929 one-act opera Von heute auf morgen by the librettist-composer team of Gertrud and Arnold Schoenberg, and a collaborative filmic performance of it in the 1996 film of the same name by the directorial-production team of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub (musical direction by Michael Gielen). These two documents of operatic collaboration, along with the paired intertexts made up of the Straub/Huillet-Gielen film version of Arnold Schoenberg's Moses und Aron (1974–75), interrogate the complex field of attention to reveal its links to the aesthetics of gender, performance, and agency. Thus emerges an essential performative micropolitics embodying potential resistance to the opera's political economy of gendered domination.
{"title":"Today, Tomorrow, and In-Between: Straub/Huillet, the Schoenbergs, and the Gendered Micropolitics of Operatic Performance in Von heute auf morgen","authors":"Kevin S. Amidon","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2021.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2021.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Artists who have confronted the politics of collaborative theater have been both drawn to and repelled by opera, intrigued by its aesthetic possibilities, its suspect politics, and its economic entanglements. Central to opera's fascination has also been its complex and manifestly gendered production of texts, voices, and performances. This essay explores the 1929 one-act opera Von heute auf morgen by the librettist-composer team of Gertrud and Arnold Schoenberg, and a collaborative filmic performance of it in the 1996 film of the same name by the directorial-production team of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub (musical direction by Michael Gielen). These two documents of operatic collaboration, along with the paired intertexts made up of the Straub/Huillet-Gielen film version of Arnold Schoenberg's Moses und Aron (1974–75), interrogate the complex field of attention to reveal its links to the aesthetics of gender, performance, and agency. Thus emerges an essential performative micropolitics embodying potential resistance to the opera's political economy of gendered domination.","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":"110 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81027722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay reads the play Ibrahim Sultan (1673) by the German baroque writer Daniel Casper von Lohenstein as a drama of female resistance. While Sultan Ibrahim represents political and erotic despotism, reflecting early modern orientalist tropes, the female characters successfully defy his tyranny and initiate a revolt inside the palace and outside, which finally leads to his deposition. Lohenstein presents female characters who perform resistance to a despotic Sultan and thus offers a more complex understanding of women's political agency in the early modern period. Moreover, by depicting the Ottoman Empire as what Hugo Grotius defined as a better nation, and one able to free itself from despotism, Lohenstein himself performs resistance to a mere derogation of the Ottomans. The author stresses parallels between "Western" and "Eastern" issues (such as the use and abuse of power) and hence advocates for a universalistic political and moral agenda.
{"title":"Recalcitrance, Resistance, and Revolt in Daniel Casper von Lohenstein's Ibrahim Sultan","authors":"Isabella Holt","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2021.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2021.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay reads the play Ibrahim Sultan (1673) by the German baroque writer Daniel Casper von Lohenstein as a drama of female resistance. While Sultan Ibrahim represents political and erotic despotism, reflecting early modern orientalist tropes, the female characters successfully defy his tyranny and initiate a revolt inside the palace and outside, which finally leads to his deposition. Lohenstein presents female characters who perform resistance to a despotic Sultan and thus offers a more complex understanding of women's political agency in the early modern period. Moreover, by depicting the Ottoman Empire as what Hugo Grotius defined as a better nation, and one able to free itself from despotism, Lohenstein himself performs resistance to a mere derogation of the Ottomans. The author stresses parallels between \"Western\" and \"Eastern\" issues (such as the use and abuse of power) and hence advocates for a universalistic political and moral agenda.","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"15 - 37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78318933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Special Issue: Performing Resistance","authors":"Caroline Weist, S. E. Jackson","doi":"10.1353/fgs.2021.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2021.0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53717,"journal":{"name":"Feminist German Studies","volume":"81 1","pages":"1 - 14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88532467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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