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*apologies for cross-posting* Dear Colleagues, Emily and I are happy to present our co-edited issue of Oxford German Studies, Fractured Legacies, with many thanks and gratitude to the contributing colleagues! Best wishes, Birgit Not displaying correctly? View in your browser: http://tandf.msgfocus.com/q/122StP7hyQDuN3Hw8Tnp/wv Plain text version<http://tandf.msgfocus.com/q/122StP7hyQDuN3Hw8Tnp/text-version> | Add to safe senders list<http://tandf.msgfocus.com/n/1ckvvZYTFYeXN> [http://tandf.msgfocus.com/files/tfinf_tandf/user_736/rout_banner.jpg]<http://tandf.msgfocus.com/c/11B6kpy0rFVfossl6ID8AuNp> Fractured Legacies: Historical, Cultural and Political Perspectives on German Feminism<http://tandf.msgfocus.com/c/11B6kqAWKjRs170IxDybew9A> This special issue investigates feminist legacies in the German-language context. In the nineteenth century, female writers situated at the beginning of the German women’s movement expressed a desire for their work to initiate a generational project. The achievement of equal democratic rights for men and women was perceived to be a process in which the ‘democratic spirit’ was instilled in future generations through education and the provision of exceptional role models. However, the outbreak of two world wars, combined with the long-term effects of National Socialism in Germany as well as the division of the country into two distinct political and cultural contexts, entailed the premature collapse of this generational project by the middle of the twentieth century. While many of the nineteenth-century authors were rediscovered by the second wave of West German feminism in the 1970s and 80s, very little effort has been made to claim these predecessors for an explicitly German feminist tradition, or to carry on with the generational project, West Germany’s second wave being predominantly influenced by French and Anglophone feminist theory. Current scholarship on twenty-first century German feminisms reveals unwillingness amongst new feminist writers to express continuity with historically located feminist forebears. Scholars nonetheless discern the adoption of second-wave writerly strategies in twenty-first century texts, even as they distance themselves rhetorically and ideologically from second-wave West German feminism. Strikingly, new German feminists remain almost entirely silent with regard to an even earlier nineteenth century tradition of feminist engagement. One of the strengths of this special issue includes its approach to the field of enquiry from a comparative, inter-disciplinary perspective, incorporating historical, literary, sociological and gender-discourse analysis. The issue initiates its investigation of the narrative rupture in German feminism with: * an initial, critical assessment of the historical mechanisms which might have contributed to the lack of a feminist tradition specific to Germany in both twentieth and twenty-first centuries, * a comparative discussion of new Anglo-American feminisms, which in contrast express explicit indebtedness to late nineteenth and early twentieth-century emancipatory movements, * an analysis of the search for authority and legitimacy undertaken by contemporary writers when selecting or refusing to place their work on a continuum with the second wave, the suffragettes and suffragist movements. ________________________________ Kind regards, Steven Turner <mailto:[log in to unmask]>Routledge Literature<http://tandf.msgfocus.com/c/11B6krDT2XNEDLz5YytdSxvL> [http://tandf.msgfocus.com/files/tfinf_tandf/user_736/Oxford_german_studies_cover.jpg]<http://tandf.msgfocus.com/c/11B6ksGPlBJRgq7tptogwyRW> [Share on Facebook] Share on Facebook <http://tandf.msgfocus.com/o/1CbD8e8vmG2YB?u=%24AMF_PERMALINK%24>[Share on Twitter] Share on Twitter <http://tandf.msgfocus.com/o/1pg4k73Hwk8Yc?status=%24AMF_SHORT_PERMALINK%24>[Forward to a friend] Forward to a friend<http://tandf.msgfocus.com/f/135OMt3ubvbSdYCyMUJA> ________________________________ Editors: Birgit Mikus & Emily Spiers ________________________________ Contributors: Birgit Mikus & Emily Spiers, University of Oxford & St Andrews University Charlotte Woodford, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge Caroline Bland, University of Sheffield Georgina Paul, St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford Margaret McCarthy, Davidson College Katja Kauer, Universität Magdeburg/ Universität Fribourg ________________________________ Cover image: The image 'I the Woman, I the Art, I the Artist' reproduced with kind permission by the artist, Ikram Guedouar (www.behance.net/perlanegrart<http://tandf.msgfocus.com/c/11B6kuMHWTCgvJeehjelOBAi>) follow us on Twitter<http://tandf.msgfocus.com/c/11B6kvPEfxyt8nMBIe9osCWt> | find us on Facebook<http://tandf.msgfocus.com/c/11B6kwSAybuFL2kZ994r6EiE> | forward to a friend<http://tandf.msgfocus.com/f/135OMt3ubvbSdYCyMUJA> [Taylor & Francis imprints]<http://tandf.msgfocus.com/c/11B6kxVwQPqSnGTmA3ZtKFEP> Sign up by subject area<http://tandf.msgfocus.com/c/11B6kyYt9tn50lrK0YUwoH10> to receive news and offers straight to your inbox from the Taylor & Francis Group. 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[Powered by Adestra] [http://tandf.msgfocus.com/t/1ckvvZYTFYeXN.png] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr Birgit Mikus The Political Woman in Print: http://www.peterlang.com?431736<https://owa.nexus.ox.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=IS7a2Zxu5E6oI6hMQPio0e3Ep9v-3NEIuvsdndz5u2QTOOaFrGvFrIBO0vWkiuLMI53-aRPWBgM.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.peterlang.com%3f431736> Fractured Legacies: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/yogs20/45/1 Project Coordinator '15cBOOKTRADE' http://15cbooktrade.ox.ac.uk/ https://twitter.com/15cBOOKTRADE Editorial Assistant Oxford German Studies http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/yogs Faculty of Modern Languages (Sub-faculty of German) University of Oxford