Women and Death 2

MERERID PUW DAVIES is Professor of German Studies at University College London, UK.

• Introduction - Sarah Colvin and Helen Watanabe-O'KellyThe German Reception of the Amazon Myths from Hederich to Bachofen - Daria SantiniWearing the Trousers: The Woman Warrior as Cross-dresser in German Literature - Helen Watanabe-O'KellyWomen Warriors, Feminism, and National Socialism: The Reception of J. J. Bachofen's View of Amazons among German and Austrian Right-Wing Women Writers - Peter DaviesWomen Warriors and the Origin of the State: Zacharias Werner's Wanda and Heinrich von Kleist's Penthesilea - Ritchie RobertsonGermania in Armor: The Female Representation of an Endangered German Nation - Bettina BrandtTerror in Germany 1918-19: Visual Commentaries on Rosa Luxemburg's Assassination - Kathrin Hoffmann-CurtiusGerman Conceptions of War, Masculinity, and Femininity in the Long Nineteenth Century - Ute FrevertSoldiers and Mothers in the German Bundeswehr: Constructions of Gender and Service under Arms - Ruth SeifertGender and the Military in East Germany: Defense Policies and the Woman Question in the GDR - Christine EiflerWest German Representations of Women and Resistance in Vietnam, 1966-73 - Mererid Puw DaviesWitch, Amazon, or Joan of Arc? Ulrike Meinhof's Defenders, or How to Legitimize a Violent Woman - Sarah Colvin

The case studies range from general issues to very specific ones, providing good coverage of militant women in many roles from early times onwards. . . . [P]rovide[s] revealing insights into specific individuals, including key figures such as Grimmelshausen's Courasche, Schiller's Joan of Arc, and Kleist's Penthesilea.