Women in German Expressionism

Anke Finger is Professor of German Studies, Media Studies, and Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut.Julie Shoults is Visiting Lecturer in German and Women's & Gender Studies at Muhlenberg College.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Flipping the Prostitute: German Expressionism Reexamined after 100 Years (Anke Finger and Julie Shoults)Intimate Strangers: Women in German Expressionism (Barbara Wright)Situating Female Authors in the Expressionist Movement:Elsa Asenijeff and German Expressionism (Curtis Swope)Between Bohemian Brotherhood and the New Man: On Gender and Writing in F. Gräfin zu Reventlow’s Herrn Dames Aufzeichnungen (1913) (Carola Daffner)“Wenn man eine Frau ist”: Female Protagonists as Social Revolutionaries (Corinne Painter)On Their Own: Reconsidering Marianne Werefkin and Gabriele Münter (Katy Klaasmeyer)Gender & the Body:Somaesthetics, Gender, and the Body as Media in Claire Goll’s Racialized Expressionism (Anke Finger)Gender, Sexuality and the Makeup of Feminine Beauty: Viennese Expressionist Ceramics and the Wieselthier Frauenkopf (Megan Brandow-Faller)The Ecstasies of Mela Hartwig-Spira: Between Laughter and Terror (Aleksandra Kudryashova)Sexuality – Beyond Mothers and Prostitutes:Resituating Lu Märten’s Manifesto of Matriarchal Socialism in Expressionist Debates (Douglas Brent McBride)Emmy Hennings: The Human Being as Woman (Nicole Shea)Writing the Inner Strife: Emmy Hennings’s Das Brandmal. Ein Tagebuch (1920) (Mirjam Berg)Social Issues & Activism:“The Time is Coming”: Women Writers in the Expressionist Journal Die Aktion (1911-1932) (Catherine Smale)Expressionism and “Female Insanity”: The Lives and Works of Else Blankenhorn (1873-1920) and Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler (1899-1940) (Daniela Müller)Empathy for Outsiders in Women’s Expressionist Literature (Julie Shoults)ContributorsIndex

"This volume does much to redress the impression that women in Expressionism were viewed first and foremost by their male colleagues...Instead they were creators, editors, activists, revolutionaries, drivers in their own right, and it's long past time to recover their legacies."