Margaret McCarthy is Professor of German Studies at Davidson College, where she also teaches film and media studies. She has published articles on contemporary German literature, film, and feminism in journals such as Camera Obscura, German Quarterly, New German Critique, and Oxford German Studies. She co-edited the Women in German Yearbook as well as Light Motives: German Popular Film in Perspective (2003). More recently she edited Pop Literature: A Companion (2015).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. German Feminism in the 2000s: Brains, Bodies, and BridgesChapter 2. Lost Objects, Monsters, and Melancholia in Zoee Jenny's The Pollen Room (1999), Alexa Hennig von Lange's Relax (1999), and Elke Naters' Lies (1999)Chapter 3. Dialogical and Borderline Selfhood in Charlotte Roche's Wetlands (2008) and Wrecked (2011)Chapter 4. Girls Gone Wild: Ulrike Meinhof, Uschi Obermeier, and Feminist Fantasies of '68Chapter 5. Counter-Cinema, Crossing Bridges, and Future Feminisms: Christian Petzold's The State I Am In (2000) and Fatih Akin's The Edge of Heaven (2007)Chapter 6. Mutable Madchen: on Screen and in the StreetsBibliograhpyIndex

"In navigating the material, McCarthy manages to capture girlish playfulness and its activist potential while projecting forward and providing a new reading of important historical movements. Written in accessible prose, the book bridges gaps between activism and theory...Highly Recommended." Choice