Conceptions of Postwar German Masculinity - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791449386 ISBN 13: 9780791449387

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2001

Synopsis

Examines masculinity in German culture, society, and literature from 1945 to the present.

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.

About this title

About the Author

Roy Jerome received his Ph.D. in German Literature. He is currently completing a program in Clinical Psychology at Teacher's College, Columbia University, where he concentrates on psychoanalytic theories of masculinity, men's mental health, trauma, and violence.

From the Back Cover

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, historicism, 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 historians survey the current state of men's studies in the German academy, the representation of postwar German literature, the psychic legacies of fascism, sex education and the New Left, 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791449386
• ISBN 13: 9780791449387
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 338
• Editor: Jerome Roy