Chris Weedon is Reader in Critical and Cultural Theory at the University of Wales, Cardiff.

• Chapter 1. Reading Women's Writing: Feminist Critical ApproachesC. WeedonChapter 2. Women's Writing in Occupies Germany 1945-1949F. MeyerChapter 3. Women's Writing in the 1950s and 1960sF. MeyerChapter 4. The Early Novels of Ruth RehmannF. MeyerChapter 5. Women's Writing 1968-1980C. RapisardaChapter 6. Women's Writing of the 1980s and 1990sM. LittlerChapter 7. Original Differentiation: the Poetics of Anna DudenJ. BossinadeChapter 8. Searching for Intercultural Communication: Emine Sevgi Özdamar, a Turkish Woman Writer in GermanyI. NeubertChapter 9. Women Writers in the GDR 1945-1989E. KaufmannChapter 10. Development in East German Women's Writing since Autumn 1989E. KaufmannChapter 11. Reading Christa WolfC. WeedonChapter 12. Postwar Austrian Women WritersA. FiddlerChapter 13. Reading Ingeborg BachmannE. BoaChapter 14. Reading Elfriede JelinekA. FiddlerChapter 15. Women's Writing in German-speaking SwitzerlandC. FlitnerAfterwordC. WeedonNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex

“Most contributors consider the writing in sociohistorical contexts and demonstrate how the authors negotiate patriarchal structures. The book's strength and usefulness lie in this uniformity of approach and the amount of information provided.”  ·  Choice"Chapters on the four German-speaking countries provide a grand survey… the volume provides ample evidence that the absence of women from the German canon in the decades after the war is due not to their silence but to gender politics."  ·  Times Literary Supplement"A unique achievement."  ·  Das Argument

Chris Weedon is Reader in Critical and Cultural Theory at the University of Wales, Cardiff.

• Chapter 1. Reading Women's Writing: Feminist Critical ApproachesC. WeedonChapter 2. Women's Writing in Occupies Germany 1945-1949F. MeyerChapter 3. Women's Writing in the 1950s and 1960sF. MeyerChapter 4. The Early Novels of Ruth RehmannF. MeyerChapter 5. Women's Writing 1968-1980C. RapisardaChapter 6. Women's Writing of the 1980s and 1990sM. LittlerChapter 7. Original Differentiation: the Poetics of Anna DudenJ. BossinadeChapter 8. Searching for Intercultural Communication: Emine Sevgi Özdamar, a Turkish Woman Writer in GermanyI. NeubertChapter 9. Women Writers in the GDR 1945-1989E. KaufmannChapter 10. Development in East German Women's Writing since Autumn 1989E. KaufmannChapter 11. Reading Christa WolfC. WeedonChapter 12. Postwar Austrian Women WritersA. FiddlerChapter 13. Reading Ingeborg BachmannE. BoaChapter 14. Reading Elfriede JelinekA. FiddlerChapter 15. Women's Writing in German-speaking SwitzerlandC. FlitnerAfterwordC. WeedonNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex

“Most contributors consider the writing in sociohistorical contexts and demonstrate how the authors negotiate patriarchal structures. The book's strength and usefulness lie in this uniformity of approach and the amount of information provided.”  ·  Choice"Chapters on the four German-speaking countries provide a grand survey… the volume provides ample evidence that the absence of women from the German canon in the decades after the war is due not to their silence but to gender politics."  ·  Times Literary Supplement"A unique achievement."  ·  Das Argument

Chris Weedon is Reader in Critical and Cultural Theory at the University of Wales, Cardiff.

• Chapter 1. Reading Women's Writing: Feminist Critical ApproachesC. WeedonChapter 2. Women's Writing in Occupies Germany 1945-1949F. MeyerChapter 3. Women's Writing in the 1950s and 1960sF. MeyerChapter 4. The Early Novels of Ruth RehmannF. MeyerChapter 5. Women's Writing 1968-1980C. RapisardaChapter 6. Women's Writing of the 1980s and 1990sM. LittlerChapter 7. Original Differentiation: the Poetics of Anna DudenJ. BossinadeChapter 8. Searching for Intercultural Communication: Emine Sevgi Özdamar, a Turkish Woman Writer in GermanyI. NeubertChapter 9. Women Writers in the GDR 1945-1989E. KaufmannChapter 10. Development in East German Women's Writing since Autumn 1989E. KaufmannChapter 11. Reading Christa WolfC. WeedonChapter 12. Postwar Austrian Women WritersA. FiddlerChapter 13. Reading Ingeborg BachmannE. BoaChapter 14. Reading Elfriede JelinekA. FiddlerChapter 15. Women's Writing in German-speaking SwitzerlandC. FlitnerAfterwordC. WeedonNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex

“Most contributors consider the writing in sociohistorical contexts and demonstrate how the authors negotiate patriarchal structures. The book's strength and usefulness lie in this uniformity of approach and the amount of information provided.”  ·  Choice"Chapters on the four German-speaking countries provide a grand survey… the volume provides ample evidence that the absence of women from the German canon in the decades after the war is due not to their silence but to gender politics."  ·  Times Literary Supplement"A unique achievement."  ·  Das Argument