Bettina Brandt
Germania und ihre Söhne
Repräsentationen von Nation, Geschlecht und Politik in der Moderne
1. Edition 2010
477 pages
ISBN 978-3-525-36710-0
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Historische Semantik -
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In a long-term cultural history of the Germania personification, Bettina Brandt explores the historically changing semantics of gender images in symbolic discourses of a modern German nation. The modern linkage between nation and civic rights was systematically based on a gendered difference between the feminine embodiment of the nation’s unstable boundaries and a unity of male historico-political agents – an imaginary that had highly restricting effects on women’s civic equality.
