Mad Mädchen
Subtitle: Popfeminism and Generational Conflict in Recent German Literature and Film
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781785335693
Subjects: Feminism in literature; German literature, history and criticism
Description: "The last two decades have been transformational, often discordant ones for German feminism, as a new cohort of activists has come of age and challenged many of the movement’s strategic and philosophical orthodoxies. Mad Mädchen offers an incisive analysis of these trans-generational debates, identifying the mother-daughter themes and other tropes that have defined their representation in German literature, film, and media. Author Margaret McCarthy investigates female subjectivity as it processes political discourse to define itself through both differences and affinities among women. Ultimately, such a model suggests new ways of re-imagining feminist solidarity across generational, ethnic, and racial lines." -- Publisher's description