The only extended, first-person narrative about menopause, A Menopausal Memoir: Letters from Another Climate explores the connection between menopause, mourning, and memory through nine fictional letters written to different addressees. The letters explain the author s own experience of having a hysterectomy (without her permission) during surgery for endometriosis and being thrown into instant menopause. Herrmann expresses her experiences differently in each letter based on the recipient s gender, sexual identity, and age, revealing the complexities of accepting menopause. Psychotherapists,...

The only extended, first-person narrative about menopause, A Menopausal Memoir: Letters from Another Climate explores the connection between menopause, mourning, and memory through nine fictional letters written to different addressees. The letters explain the author's own experience of having a hysterectomy (without her permission) during surgery for endometriosis and being thrown into instant menopause. Herrmann expresses her experiences differently in each letter based on the recipient's gender, sexual identity, and age, revealing the complexities of accepting menopause. Psychotherapists,...

This juxtaposition of Virginia Woolf and Christa Wolf, writers of two distinct cultures, countries and generations, focuses on the strategies the two authors share in creating their female characters. Hermann looks at each author within the social and historical conditions that produced them, employ

Anne Herrmann, a dual citizen born in New York to Swiss parents, offers in Coming Out Swiss a witty, profound, and ultimately universal exploration of identity and community. Swissness even on its native soil a loose confederacy, divided by multiple languages, nationalities, religion, and alpen geographybecomes in the diaspora both nowhere (except in the minds of immigrants and their children) and everywhere, reflected in pervasive cliches.
In a work that is part memoir, part history and travelogue, Herrmann explores all our Swiss cliches (chocolate, secret bank accounts,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Forensische Psychologie, Strafvollzug, Note: 2, Technische Universitat Chemnitz (Philosophische Fakultat), Veranstaltung: Abweichendes Verhalten, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Um feststellen zu konnen ob und welche Storung der Personlichkeit bei einem Menschen vorliegt, muss geklart werden wie eine Personlichkeit bzw. ein Charakter entsteht. Zum naheren Verstandnis soll hier die Personlichkeitstheorie in Sigmund Freuds Psychoanalyse herangezogen werden. Freud geht in seinem allgemeinen Menschenbild davon aus, dass alle menschlichen...

In Queering the Moderns, Anne Herrmann revisits the narrative of literary modernism and the historical uses of the term "queer" to explore the emergence of identities specific to modernism. "Queer" in the modernist period (1910-1945) means "strange, odd, out of sorts" and although it begins to refer to those who are queer sexually, it does not yet police a hetero-homosexual divide. It means crossing boundaries in unexpected directions, across the Atlantic, across the color line, across literary conventions that dictate autobiographies can't be written by someone else. Six memoirs that rely on...