{"product_id":"german-metoo-9781640141353","title":"German #MeToo","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis volume of new essays represents a collective, academic, and activist effort to interpret German literature and culture in the context of the international #MeToo movement, illustrating and interrogating the ways that \"rape cultures\" persist.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eResponding to the worldwide impact of the #MeToo movement, this volume investigates not only the ubiquity of sexual abuse and sexual violence but also the transhistorical and transnational failure to hold perpetrators accountable. From a range of disciplines, the collected essays engage current cultural and political discourses about systemic sexism, feminist theory and practice, and gender-based discrimination from an academic and activist perspective. The focus on national cultures of German-speaking Europe from the mid-eighteenth century to the present captures the persistence of normalized and institutionalized sexism, reframed through the lens of a contemporary political and social movement. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGerman #MeToo\u003c\/i\u003e argues that sexual violence is not a universal human constant. Rather, it is nurtured and sustained by the social, political, cultural, legal, and economic fabric of specific societies. The authors sustain and vary their exploration of #MeToo-related issues through considerations of rape, prostitution, sexual murder, the politics of consent, and victim-blaming as enacted in literary works by canonical and marginalized authors, the visual arts, the graphic novel, film, television, and theater. The analysis of rape myths - of discourses and practices in German history and culture that subtend and indemnify sexual violence - is a central subject of this edited volume. Throughout, \u003ci\u003eGerman #MeToo\u003c\/i\u003e challenges narratives of sex-based discrimination while emphasizing the strategies of resistance and the importance of telling one's own story.","brand":"Elisabeth Krimmer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280740331771,"sku":"9781640141353","price":170.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781640141353_cd32b350-e1e4-4b5e-beb4-c60e10a911e1.jpg?v=1772485786","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/german-metoo-9781640141353","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}