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.

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.

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.