Gender and Germanness : cultural productions of nation / edited by Patricia Herminghouse and Magda Mueller.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Beautiful, the ugly, and the German / Susanne Zantop -- Sophie La Roche as a German patriot / Helga S. Watt -- Romantic nationalism / Sara Friedrichsmeyer -- How to think about Germany / Russel A. Berman -- Fatherland's kiss of death / Brent O. Peterson -- Challenge of missing contents for canon formation in German studies / Elke Frederiksen -- Feminism and motherhood in Germany and in international perspective 1800-1914 / Ann Taylor Allen -- Truly womanly and truly German / Stefana Lefko -- Ladies' auxiliary of German literature / Patricia Herminghouse -- En-gendering mass culture / Lutz P. Koepnick -- Nazism as femme fatale / Barton Byg -- Visualizing the nation / Mariatte C. Denman -- Framing the Unheimlich / Ingeborg Majer O'Sickey -- Rape, nation, and remembering history / Barbara Kosta -- Germany is full of Germans now / Barbara Mennel -- Bodies for Germany, bodies for socialism / Denis Sweet -- Patterns of consciousness and cycles of self-destruction / Karin Bauer -- Germania displaced? / Magda Mueller -- GERMANIA, just a male construction? / Eva Kaufmann -- Price of feminism / Leslie Adelson -- Language is publicity for men, but enough is enough! / Luise Pusch -- New Duden / Luise Pusch.

Cultural Studies have been preoccupied with questions of national identity and cultural representations. At the same time, feminist studies have insisted upon the entanglement of gender with issues of nation, class, and ethnicity. Developments in the wake of German unification demand a reassessment of the nexus of gender, Germanness and nationhood. The contributors to this volume pursue these strands of the cultural debate in German history, literature, visual arts, and language over a period of three hundred years in sections devoted to History and the Canon, Visual Culture, Germany and Her "Others", Language and Power.