Black Magic Woman; Gender and the Occult in Weimar Germany

ISBN-13: 9781789976816 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 206 str.

Barbara Hales

Opis

This book is a study of women's involvement in occult practices in Weimar Germany. The book examines reports of women engaging in actual occult practices (expressive dance, mediumism, witchcraft) as well as various fictional depictions of women as demonic or as possessing supernatural powers (ghosts, vampires, monsters).

Recenzje

«Connecting history, public discourse, and literary and filmic renditions of 'occult women,' Barbara Hales compellingly demonstrates how these figures are bound up with the fraught position of women in Weimar culture. Her richly textured readings add important nuance to our understanding of the complexity of gender in this era.» (Anjeana K. Hans, Associate Professor of German Studies, Wellesley College, and author of Gender and the Uncanny in Films of the Weimar Republic)

«Excavating a rich, diverse trove of historical sources - from journalism, psychology, and criminology to literature and film - Dr. Hales's cultural history of women and the occult in Weimar Germany exposes a shadowy and little-explored realm of anxiety, pleasure, and power around the rise of the New Woman.» (Valerie Weinstein, Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Niehoff Professor in Film and Media Studies, University of Cincinnati, and author of Antisemitism in Film Comedy in Nazi Germany)

Spis treści

CONTENTS: The Occult Woman as Metaphor for Weimar's New Woman - The Ghost - The Vampire and the Monster Double - The Witch and the Gypsy - The Trance-Dancer and Medium.

O autorze

Barbara Hales is Associate Professor of History and Humanities at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. Her research focuses on the cultural and intellectual history of Weimar and Nazi Germany. She has published numerous articles in journals such as German Quarterly, Monatshefte, and Seminar. She recently coedited the volumes Continuity and Crisis in German Cinema 1928-1936 (with Mihaela Petrescu and Valerie Weinstein) for Camden House and Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Film (with Valerie Weinstein) for Berghahn. Dr. Hales is President of the Houston-based organization Center for Medicine After the Holocaust.