Conceptions of postwar German masculinity / edited by Roy Jerome ; with an afterword by Michael Kimmel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jerome, Roy, 1964- editor.

Kimmel, Michael S., writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Masculinity--Germany--History--20th century.

Masculinity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 338 p. )

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2001]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This groundbreaking work examines the long-ignored issue of masculinity and masculine identity in German culture, society, and literature, from 1945 to the present. Utilizing emerging men's studies theories, feminism, psychoanalysis, and literary studies, the book provides a resource for understanding how masculinity informs homosocial, male-female, and adult-child relations. Psychologists, literary scholars, and philosophers survey the current state of men's studies in the German academy, the representation of masculinity in postwar German literature, the psychic legacies of fascism, Turkish-German masculinities, Jewish-German masculinities, Neo-Nazi masculine identity, and the relationship between child sexual abuse and masculinity. Most significantly, the book offers tools for critical reflection on how men maintain power over women and other less powerful groups.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introductory Considerations

Introduction

Hard-Cold-Fast: Imagining Masculinity in the German Academy, Literature, and the Media

Theoretical Considerations to the Problematic of Postwar German Masculine Identity

An Interview with Tilmann Moser on Trauma, Therapeutic Technique, and the Constitution of Masculinity in the Sons of the National Socialist Generation

Paralysis, Silence, and the Unknown SS-Father: A Therapeutic Case Study on the Return of the Third Reich in Psychotherapy

The German-Jewish Hyphen: Conjunct, Disjunct or Adjunct?

Masculinity and Sexual Abuse in Postwar German Society

Reading Masculinity in Postwar German Literature

The Motif of the Man, Who, Although He Loves, Goes to War: On the History of the Construction of Masculinity in the European Tradition

“I have only you, Cassandra”: Antifeminism and the Reconstruction of Patriarchy in the Early Postwar Works of Hans Erich Nossack

Brutal Heroes, Human Marionettes, and Men with Bitter Knowledge: On the New Formulation of Masculinity in the Literature of the “Young Generation” after 1945 (W. Borchert, H. Bo¨ ll, and A. Andersch)

Väterliteratur, Masculinity, and History: The Melancholic Texts of the 1980s

Homosexual Images of Masculinity in German-Language Literature after 1945

Neo-Nazi or Neo-Man? The Possibilities for the Transformation of Masculine Identity in Kafka and Hasselbach

Multiple Masculinities in Turkish-German Men’s Writings

Afterword

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780791490716

0791490718

9781417500215

1417500212