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Enlightened Reactions: Emancipation, Gender, and Race in German Women's Writing
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Enlightened Reactions: Emancipation, Gender, and Race in German Women's Writing (Women in German Literature) Paperback - 2011

by Traci S. O'Brien


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This book investigates a central contradiction in the Enlightenment thinking of emancipatory German women's writing of the nineteenth century. Ida von Hahn-Hahn, Fanny Lewald, and Ottilie Assing wrote passionate arguments in favor of the emancipation of women, Jews, and blacks, promoting Enlightenment ideals of human worth and social contribution. They protested these groups' exclusion from social participation on the basis of purportedly natural criteria such as gender or race. However, their rhetoric of emancipation also relied on racializing discourse, demonstrating that these women writers, too, frequently supported social equality at the expense of another excluded group. The author develops her argument by analyzing Hahn-Hahn's fiction and travel writings set in the Middle East, Lewald's novels and letters about women and Jews in Germany, and Assing's Reports from America in favor of the abolition of African slavery in the United States. This wide-ranging comparative study offers a unique insight into German women's contribution to emancipatory struggles around the world.

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  • Title Enlightened Reactions: Emancipation, Gender, and Race in German Women's Writing (Women in German Literature)
  • Author Traci S. O'Brien
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 341
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
  • Date 2011-11
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9783039115686
  • Themes
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Women's Studies
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine

About the author

Traci S. O'Brien is Assistant Professor of German at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, and holds academic degrees from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She has published articles on women's writing, foreign language pedagogy, and German and Austrian literature.
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