Editors:
- Elisabeth Krimmer, German Department, University of California, Davis - Editor's Personal Website, Academia.edu

- Patricia Anne Simpson, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Nebraska-Lincoln - Humanities Commons, ResearchGate

Contents:

	List of Illustrations (p. vii)
	Introduction (p. 1) Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Anne Simpson
	Part I. Histories
	1: Eighteenth-Century #MeToo: Rape Culture and Victim Blaming in Heinrich Leopold Wagner's Die Kindermörderin (1776) (p. 35) Lisa Wille
	2: #MeToo: Prostitution and the Syntax of Sexuality around 1800 (p. 59) Patricia Anne Simpson
	Part II. Dialogues across Time
	3: "Immaculate Conception," the "Romance of Rape," and #MeToo: Kleistian Echoes in Kerstin Hensel and Julia Franck (p. 83) Melissa Ann Sheedy
	4: Female Sacrifice, Sexual Assault, and Dehumanization: Bourgeois Tragedy, Horror, and the Making of Jud Süß (p. 100) Deborah Janson
	5: "Na, wenn du mich erst fragst?": Reconsidering Affirmative Consent with Schnitzler, Schnitt, Habermas, and Rancière (p. 123) Sonja Boos
	Part III. Sexual Violence, Warfare, and Genocide
	6: War of the Vulva: The Women of Otto Dix's Lustmord Series (p. 145) Jessica Davis
	7: Death to the Patriarchal Theater! Charlotte Salomon's Graphic Testimony (p. 171) Maureen Burdock
	8: #MeToo and Wartime Rape: Looking Back and Moving Forward (p. 197) Katherine Stone
	Part IV. The Institutions of #MeToo
	9: Boarding-School Novels around 1900: The Relation of Male Fear of Women to Male-Male Seduction and Sexual Abuse in Hesse, Musil, and Walser (p. 219) Niklas Straetker
	10: Breaking the Silence about Sexualized Violence in Lilly Axtser's and Beate Teresa Hanika's Young Adult Fiction (YAF) (p. 244) Anna Sator
	11: "Eine gigantische Vergewaltigung": Rape as Subject in Roger Fritz's Mädchen mit Gewalt (1970) (p. 263) Lisa Haegele
	12: Elfriede Jelinek and Ingeborg Bachmann: Transformations of the Capitalist Patriarchy and Narrating Sexual Violence in the Twentieth Century (p. 283) Aylin Bademsoy
	13: Staging Consent and Threatened Masculinity: The Debate on #MeToo in Contemporary German Theater (p. 302) Daniele Vecchiato
	Part V. #MeToo Across Cultural and National Borders
	14: Patriarchy, Male Violence, and Disadvantaged Women: Representations of Muslims in the Crime Television Series Tatort (p. 321) Sascha Gerhards
	15: Fatih Akin's Head On: Challenging Mythologies of German Social Work in Gegen die Wand (2004) (p. 345) Florian Gassner
	16: Is a Prostitute Rapeable? Teresa Ruiz Rosas's Novel Nada que declarar in Dialogue with #MeToo (p. 362) Kathrin Breuer
	Notes on the Contributors (p. 381)
	Index (p. 387)

Description: »Responding to the worldwide impact of the #MeToo movement, this volume investigates not only the ubiquity of sexual abuse and sexual violence but also the transhistorical and transnational failure to hold perpetrators accountable. From a range of disciplines, the collected essays engage current cultural and political discourses about systemic sexism, feminist theory and practice, and gender-based discrimination from an academic and activist perspective. The focus on national cultures of German-speaking Europe from the mid-eighteenth century to the present captures the persistence of normalized and institutionalized sexism, reframed through the lens of a contemporary political and social movement.
German #MeToo argues that sexual violence is not a universal human constant. Rather, it is nurtured and sustained by the social, political, cultural, legal, and economic fabric of specific societies. The authors sustain and vary their exploration of #MeToo-related issues through considerations of rape, prostitution, sexual murder, the politics of consent, and victim-blaming as enacted in literary works by canonical and marginalized authors, the visual arts, the graphic novel, film, television, and theater. The analysis of rape myths - of discourses and practices in German history and culture that subtend and indemnify sexual violence - is a central subject of this edited volume. Throughout, German #MeToo challenges narratives of sex-based discrimination while emphasizing the strategies of resistance and the importance of telling one's own story.« (Source: Boydell & Brewer)

Reviews:
- Gruber, Julia K. Feminist German Studies 39(2) (Fall/Winter 2023): 136-137. - Full Text: Project MUSE (Restricted Access)

- Stewart, Alexandra M. Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 60(1) (February 2024): 63-65. - Full Text: Project MUSE (Restricted Access), University of Toronto Journals (Restricted Access)

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