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Women and Gender in German Studies focuses on the literary contributions of German-speaking women from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, as well as feminist approaches to canonical literature.

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16 results in Women and Gender in German Studies

Women, Religion, and Emotions in Modern Germany and Beyond
  • Edited by Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker, Martina Cucchiara
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    24 June 2026
  • Analyzes the role of emotions in the religious lives of women from across Germany and Europe from the nineteenth century to the 1970s.

    Scholarship on women and religion has focused primarily on the intersection between women's religious engagement and their emancipation. This volume goes beyond that to examine the vital role religion has played in the private and public lives of German and European women. Because emotions are central to the expression of religiosity, it draws on approaches from the history of emotions to examine how women understood, felt and practiced religion in their search for meaning.

    Spanning from the nineteenth century to the 1970s, the volume's essays show how religion helped women make sense of their lives. It also illuminates the degree to which women used religion and its attendant emotional scripts to shape modern society and how religious discourses in turn shaped women's emotions and comportment in the public sphere. The volume builds on recent research that shows that religion-especially the religiosity of women-remained a pressing public concern in modern Europe. From anxieties over the religiosity of Bavarian servants to restrictive norms imposed on Jewish widows, from the interfaith commitments of kindergarten teachers to the autobiographical narratives of aspiring Protestant deaconesses, from the suffering of stigmatics in Germany and Belgium to Irish women's public narratives of their religiosity, this book reveals how women's faith and attendant religious emotions have been central to their public and private lives.

Feminist Anger in German-Language Cultural Production
  • Responses to Racism, Misogyny, and Other Injustice
  • Edited by Julia K. Gruber, Regina Range
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    24 June 2026
  • Essays by feminist scholars of German Studies looking at how women-particularly women of color-have put their anger to use in German-language cultural production and how they themselves might do so in their scholarship.

    In Germany and in Western culture more broadly, women experience anger in response to misogyny, racism, and other injustice, but open expression of that anger is often considered unwomanly. Yet a rich tradition of feminist thinkers of color-including Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper, Amia Srinivasan, and Sara Ahmed-understands anger as energizing and imperative for structural change. How might we cultivate an anger that is affirming, inclusive, legitimate, creative, animating, and most of all, feminist?

    This volume of essays by feminist scholars of German Studies-writing in dialogue with such thinkers while acknowledging their own largely white, privileged positionalities-looks at how women have put their anger to use in German-language cultural production and how they themselves might do so in their scholarship. The eleven contributions approach the topic of female anger intersectionally and transnationally. They examine angry women in the contexts of politics, activism, philosophy, economics, race, nationality, sexuality, illness, and humour. Covering a wide array of genres and discussing works from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, they explore creators including writers, filmmakers, comedian/activists, musicians, and journalists. They investigate the tensions between the emotion of anger and the practice of being an angry woman, global responses to anger, and artistic representations of angry women in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

Mathilde Möhring

Modeling Motherhood in Weimar Germany
  • Political and Psychological Discourses in Women's Writing
  • Katherine E. Calvert
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 February 2024
    Print publication:
    28 November 2023
  • Reveals how socialist discourses and psychoanalytic ideas shaped the modern models of motherhood envisioned by women writers working in the Weimar press and literary spheres.

Imaginaries of Domesticity and Women's Work in Germany around 1800

Plants, Places, and Power
  • Toward Social and Ecological Justice in German Literature and Film
  • Maria Stehle
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    09 January 2024
    Print publication:
    14 February 2021
  • Examines portrayals of plants and landscapes in recent German novels and films, addressing the contemporary forms of racism, nationalism, and social and ecological injustice that they expose.

Elsa Asenijeff’s Is that love? and Innocence

Grete Meisel-Hess
  • The New Woman and the Sexual Crisis
  • Helga Thorson
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    11 January 2023
    Print publication:
    23 August 2022
  • This first book in English on Meisel-Hess, an early feminist voice in modernist discourse, illustrates the dynamic interplay between gender, sexuality, and race/ethnicity in Austrian and German modernism.

The Memoirs of Ceija Stojka, Child Survivor of the Romani Holocaust

German #MeToo

The Tender Gaze
  • Compassionate Encounters on the German Screen, Page, and Stage
  • Edited by Muriel Cormican, Marston William
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 October 2022
    Print publication:
    15 June 2021
  • By exploring the concept of the 'tender gaze' in German film, theater, and literature, this volume's contributors illustrate how perspective-taking in works of art fosters empathy and prosocial behaviors.

Anneliese's House

Great Books by German Women in the Age of Emotion, 1770-1820

Writing the Self, Creating Community

Realities and Fantasies of German Female Leadership

Willful Girls
  • Gender and Agency in Contemporary Anglo-American and German Fiction
  • Emily Jeremiah
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    23 August 2019
    Print publication:
    15 January 2018
  • Explores the process of "becoming woman" through an analysis of the depiction of girls and young women in contemporary Anglo-American and German literary texts.