In Western culture, women are often linked with death, perhaps because they are traditionally constructed as an unknowable -other.- The first two Women and Death volumes investigate ideas about death and the feminine as represented in German culture since 1500, focusing, respectively, on the representation of women as victims and killers and the idea of the woman warrior, and confirming that women who kill or die violent or untimely deaths exercise fascination even as they pose a threat. The traditions of representation traced in the first two volumes, however, are largely patriarchal. What...
In Western culture, women are often linked with death, perhaps because they are traditionally constructed as an unknowable -other.- The first two Wome...
