Studies representations of women and death by women to see whether and how they differ from patriarchal versions. 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 exercisefascination even as they pose a threat. The traditions of representation traced in the first two volumes, however, are largely patriarchal. What happens when it is women who produce the representations? Do they debunk or reject the dominant discourses of sexual fascination around women and death? Do they replace them with more sober or "realistic" representations, with new forms, modes, and language? Or do women writers and artists, inescapably bound up in patriarchal tradition, reproduce its paradigms? This third volume in the series investigates these questions in ten essays written by an international group of expert scholars. It will be of interest to scholars and students of German literature and culture, gender studies, and film studies. Contributors: Judith Aikin, Barbara Becker-Cantarino, Jill Bepler, Stephanie Bird, Abigail Dunn, Stephanie Hilger, Elisabeth Krimmer, Aine McMurtry, Simon Richter, Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly. Clare Bielby is Lecturer in German at the University of Hull. Anna Richards is Lecturer in German at Birkbeck College, University of London.

About the Author
CLARE BIELBY is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York, UK. ELISABETH KRIMMER is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis.

Reviews
The range . . . is impressive. . . . This is a volume of impressive insights and is well worth reading. * GERMAN QUARTERLY *
A valuable collection . . . . Recommended. * CHOICE *
All chapters are interesting and useful reads for scholars of German culture, gender, and media . . . all the works in this volume . . . encourage the reader to think about women and violence in different ways. * GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW *



Book Information
ISBN 9781571134394
Author Dr Clare Bielby
Format Hardback
Page Count 234
Imprint Camden House Inc
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Weight(grams) 456g