Beauty or Beast The Woman Warrior in the German Imagination from the Renaissance to the Present 1st Edition by Helen Watanabe OKelly 019955823X 9780199558230

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ISBN 10: 019955823X

ISBN 13: 9780199558230

Author: Helen Watanabe OKelly

A regiment of women warriors strides across the battlefield of German culture – on the stage, in the opera house, on the page, and in paintings and prints. These warriors are re-imaginings by men of figures such as the Amazons, the Valkyries, and the biblical killer Judith. They are transgressive and therefore frightening figures who leave their proper female sphere and have to be made safe by being killed, deflowered, or both. This has produced some compelling works of Western culture – Cranach’s and Klimt’s paintings of Judith, Schiller’s Joan of Arc, Hebbel’s Judith, Wagner’s Brünnhilde, Fritz Lang’s Brünhild. Nowadays, representations of the woman warrior are used as a way of thinking about the woman terrorist. Women writers only engage with these imaginings at the end of the 19th century, but from the late 18th century on they begin to imagine fictional cross-dressers going to war in a realistic setting and thus think the unthinkable. What are the roots of these imaginings? And how are they related to Freud’s ideas about women’s sexuality?

Beauty or Beast The Woman Warrior in the German Imagination from the Renaissance to the Present 1st Table of contents:

1. Staking Out the Battlefield

The woman warrior in German culture

Defining the woman warrior

Women write back

Can women be heroes?

2. Amazons: Warriors or Women?

The Amazons in myth

Amazons in the German Renaissance

Amazons at court

Johann Jakob Bachofen’s Mother Right (1861)

Penthesilea before Kleist

The death of the Amazon

3. Many Ways To Die: Women Warriors and National Myth

Slav warrior women: the sources

Slav warrior women in nineteenth-century literature

Brünhild, the Germanic warrior maiden

4. Judith: Asking the Big Questions

The gender question

The sex question

The murder question

The question of terrorism: Judith and Charlotte Corday

5. Models for the Men: Heroic Maidens from Schiller to Brecht

Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans

Women warriors against Napoleon

Heroic maidens in German literature up to World War I

The Austrian Maid of Spinges

The end of the Maid of Orleans

6. Un-becoming a Woman: The Woman Warrior as Cross-dresser

The validated virago

The monstrous queen

The indestructible hermaphrodite

Chastity and the warrior woman

Heroism in a skirt

Woman made man

7. Women’s Imaginings: Women Warriors in Fiction

Women in early modern wars

Two perspectives on the struggle in the Vendée

Two activists depict the 1848 Revolution

Anti-French propaganda and the conflict over Alsace

8. Women’s Voices: Less Beast, More Beauty

Enlightened Amazons

Early twentieth-century Amazons

Utopian visions of the Amazon

Judith from fin de siècle to 1920

Visions of Charlotte Corday from 1804 and 1931

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