Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Dr Julia K. Gruber ,
Dr Regina Range ,
Professor Esther K. Bauer (Contributor) ,
Professor Muriel Cormican (Royalty Account)
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint: Camden House Inc
ISBN: 9781640142381
ISBN 10: 164014238
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 16 December 2025
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
JULIA K. GRUBER holds a PhD in German Studies from the University of Cincinnati. She was Associate Professor of German at Tennessee Tech University. REGINA RANGE received her PhD from the University of Iowa. She is Director of Pitzer Programs at Pitzer College, CA, where she also teaches. MURIEL CORMICAN is Professor of German and Chair of Modern Language Studies at Texas Christian University. Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Arlington JULIA K. GRUBER holds a PhD in German Studies from the University of Cincinnati. She was Associate Professor of German at Tennessee Tech University. OLIVIA LANDRY is Associate Professor of German in the School of World Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. MARIA STEHLE is Professor of German and Cinema Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. JENNIFER MARSTON WILLIAM is Professor of German at Purdue University. She is co-editor of Dimensions of Storytelling (CH, 2019).
