https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/403 Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Feminist German Studies. daily 1 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 text/html en-US Vol. 1 (1985) through current issue. Latest Articles: Feminist German Studies TWO Project MUSE® Feminist German Studies 2578-5192 2578-5206 Latest articles in Feminist German Studies. Feed provided by Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954600 <p></p> Every issue of Feminist German Studies is an example of collective knowledge production. The coeditors are deeply grateful to the editorial board and to the anonymous reviewers for their commitment to a model of feminist scholarship that is collaborative and supportive. Much gratitude to our hardworking intern Alexandria Koch. We also thank the excellent team at University of Nebraska Press for their unflagging support. And finally, thank you to the authors for your labor and your patience through the long process of producing this ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954620">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/403/image/coversmall Acknowledgments 2025-03-27 text/html en-US Acknowledgments 2025-03-27 2025 TWO Project MUSE® 1533 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2025-03-27 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954601 <p></p> With the many so-called turns in scholarship that have reshaped academic fields over the last several decades, attention has often been intentionally drawn away from the canonical genres in literature and philosophy that had been favored in the more narrowly defined discipline of Germanistik and toward the myriad objects of interests in German cultural studies today. For intersectional feminist scholarship, the related work of critically dismantling conventional values and hierarchies that dictate what contributions and contributors can and cannot be considered historically relevant, culturally important, or politically significant is undeniably essential. The systemic sexism, racism, classism, ableism, and ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954620">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/403/image/coversmall Editors' Introduction 2025-03-27 text/html en-US Editors' Introduction 2025-03-27 2025 TWO Project MUSE® 15698 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2025-03-27 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954602 <p></p> Generating scholarly conversations that have brought attention to the unique and powerful relationship between writing and trauma, the field of trauma studies has become increasingly important in the context of literary criticism since the 1990s. Scholars in the field have examined not only particular narrative techniques that allow for literary representations of trauma, but also the possibility of voicing silenced experiences and reconstructing selfhood through the process of writing itself. Building from such approaches, I explore elements of literary trauma theory in Mariella Mehr&#39;s 1981 novel steinzeit (stone age), including the splitting of identities, transgenerational trauma, and the use of a diary-like or ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954620">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/403/image/coversmall Mariella Mehr's steinzeit: Narrating Trauma through Autofiction 2025-03-27 text/html en-US Mariella Mehr's steinzeit: Narrating Trauma through Autofiction 2025-03-27 2025 TWO Project MUSE® 123150 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2025-03-27 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954603 <p></p> When the German army invaded France in May 1940, the German-Jewish author Adrienne Thomas was interned in the Gurs camp at the foot of the French Pyrenees, along with many other German and Austrian women, among them Hannah Arendt, Thea Sternheim, and Toni Kesten.1 The crowded camp had poor living conditions, and the women were equally desperate for news from the front lines as from their loved ones, many interned elsewhere. The women in Gurs, mostly Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution, found themselves interned by the French as &#x22;enemy aliens&#x22; as they sought to flee continental Europe to safety. The experience clearly influenced Arendt&#39;s theorization of the refugee and these &#x22;new kind of human beings&#x2014;the kind ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954620">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/403/image/coversmall Refugee Romances: Solidarity, Love, and Care in the Exile Novels of Adrienne Thomas 2025-03-27 text/html en-US Refugee Romances: Solidarity, Love, and Care in the Exile Novels of Adrienne Thomas 2025-03-27 2025 TWO Project MUSE® 114982 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2025-03-27 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954604 <p></p> Klara Blum was born in 1904 into an upper-middle-class family in Czernowitz. At the age of nine she relocated with her recently divorced mother to Vienna, where she resided until 1934. During her peregrinations from one apartment to another, Blum became intimately acquainted with the miseries of proletarian women by becoming one herself. From that point on she concentrated her attention on working women in Vienna and addressed the disenfranchisement of women and the proletariat on a global scale (Yang, Leben und Werk 94).1 During this period she composed both poetry and journalistic texts. Following her receipt of a two-month study-abroad stipend from the International Association of Revolutionary Authors, Blum ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954620">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/403/image/coversmall "Across borders stretches the worker's hand. And class at last destroys the fatherland": Klara Blum/Zhu Bailan's Search for Equality 2025-03-27 text/html en-US "Across borders stretches the worker's hand. And class at last destroys the fatherland": Klara Blum/Zhu Bailan's Search for Equality 2025-03-27 2025 TWO Project MUSE® 106094 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2025-03-27 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954605 <p></p> Once upon a time there was a diligent housewife whose helpfulness and good heart ensured the prosperity of her family for generations because she was willing to assist as midwife at the birth of a gnome prince.1This sentence sounds familiar to many of us because it includes the motifs of what we would call a &#x22;classic&#x22; fairy tale. However, few of us could identify the tale itself, even though it was written by a prolific author of many published works who enjoyed national&#x2014;and even modest international&#x2014;recognition during her lifetime.2 The tale is Amalia Schoppe&#39;s &#x22;Die flei&#xDF;ige und mitleidige Hausfrau&#x22; (1828; The kind and diligent housewife), which was included in the second volume of Kleine M&#xE4;hrchen-Bibliothek, oder ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954620">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/403/image/coversmall The Value of a Diligent Housewife: Rereading Amalia Schoppe's Fairy Tales through a Socialist Feminist Lens 2025-03-27 text/html en-US The Value of a Diligent Housewife: Rereading Amalia Schoppe's Fairy Tales through a Socialist Feminist Lens 2025-03-27 2025 TWO Project MUSE® 94374 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2025-03-27 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954606 <p></p> When I obey her, responding to the commanding tone of her voice, I can&#39;t help laughing all the while, for it clearly gives her pleasure to see how willingly and swiftly I obey. And now when I ask her for something, she snaps at me but then does kindly give in, perhaps feeling a bit of vexation at the fact that I have petitioned her in such a way that it isn&#39;t possible to deny me. I am always hurting her just a little, thinking: It serves her right! Go on! Keep hurting her, just a little. It amuses her. It&#39;s what she wants. She isn&#39;t expecting anything different! [&#x2026;] If she only knew, the one sitting here beside me, what I&#39;ve been writing! One of my most ardent desires is to have my ears boxed by her as soon as ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954620">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/403/image/coversmall "Ein handwerklicher Romancier": Masochist Antimodernism in the Works of Robert Walser 2025-03-27 text/html en-US "Ein handwerklicher Romancier": Masochist Antimodernism in the Works of Robert Walser 2025-03-27 2025 TWO Project MUSE® 121285 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2025-03-27 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954607 <p></p> Ingeborg Bachmann&#39;s literary works have been introduced to Englishspeaking audiences over the past five decades in a variety of translations. At long last, her critical writings have become accessible to Anglophone audiences as well, thanks to the work of Karen Achberger and Karl Ivan Solibakke. Achberger and Solibakke, two of the most prominent Bachmann scholars in North America, have wrought highly readable translations of Bachmann&#39;s most important essays, speeches, and lectures. The translations are based on Monika Albrecht and Dirk G&#xF6;ttsche&#39;s 2005 edition of Bachmann&#39;s Kritische Schriften (Critical writings), which significantly expanded upon the canon of critical texts previously available in the 1978 edition ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954620">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/403/image/coversmall The Critical Writings of Ingeborg Bachmann ed. by Karen R. Achberger and Karl Ivan Solibakke (review) 2025-03-27 text/html en-US The Critical Writings of Ingeborg Bachmann ed. by Karen R. Achberger and Karl Ivan Solibakke (review) 2025-03-27 2025 TWO Project MUSE® 6383 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2025-03-27 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954608 <p></p> This volume presents an engaging and diverse cross section of approaches to the life and work of Ruth Kl&#xFC;ger. The volume at hand was originally conceived as a way of marking the thirtieth anniversary of her important autobiography, weiter leben: Eine Jugend (1992), which, along with its English-language counterpart (Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered, 2001), is widely recognized as an important piece of Holocaust literature and remains a &#x22;zentraler Knotenpunkt&#x22; (7, key nodal point) for an understanding of Kl&#xFC;ger&#39;s creative and scholarly work as a whole. The rapidly growing corpus of scholarship on Kl&#xFC;ger has brought additional attention to her second memoir (unterwegs verloren: Erinnerungen, 2008; Lost ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954620">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/403/image/coversmall "Ich kann eigentlich nichts als lesen und schreiben": Zum literarischen und literaturwissenschaftlichen Werk von Ruth Klüger ed. by Gesa Dane and Gail K. Hart (review) 2025-03-27 text/html en-US "Ich kann eigentlich nichts als lesen und schreiben": Zum literarischen und literaturwissenschaftlichen Werk von Ruth Klüger ed. by Gesa Dane and Gail K. Hart (review) 2025-03-27 2025 TWO Project MUSE® 7241 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2025-03-27 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954609 <p></p> Minority Discourses in Germany since 1990 offers a significant contribution to interdisciplinary, decolonial, and transnational scholarly efforts in German studies. This Spektrum series volume, which emerged from a 2017 conference organized by the editors at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, aims to foster dialogue among scholars focused on different marginalized communities in Germany, emphasizing &#x22;an understanding of Germanness as plural, culturally diverse, and multilingual&#x22; (4). The editors explain the motivation behind the collection, observing that although the histories, discrimination, and resistance strategies of ethnic minorities in Germany often intersect, they are frequently discussed separately. ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954620">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/403/image/coversmall Minority Discourses in Germany since 1990 ed. by Ela Gezen, Priscilla Layne, and Jonathan Skolnik (review) 2025-03-27 text/html en-US Minority Discourses in Germany since 1990 ed. by Ela Gezen, Priscilla Layne, and Jonathan Skolnik (review) 2025-03-27 2025 TWO Project MUSE® 6286 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2025-03-27 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954610 <p></p> From Study Abroad to Education Abroad offers a history of education abroad programs in the United States and a survey of their learning goals. Significantly for the readers of this journal, it presents detailed, research-based suggestions for diversifying short- and long-term programs while better helping participants develop language proficiency and intercultural competence. The volume&#39;s most important takeaway is that simply living abroad, even for a long period of time, is not sufficient for the development of linguistic or intercultural competence. It foregrounds &#x22;education abroad&#x22; rather than &#x22;study abroad&#x22; because the former encompasses the mindful curricular design and variety of extracurricular experiences ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954620">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/403/image/coversmall From Study Abroad to Education Abroad: Language Proficiency, Intercultural Competence, and Diversity by Senta Goertler and Theresa Schenker (review) 2025-03-27 text/html en-US From Study Abroad to Education Abroad: Language Proficiency, Intercultural Competence, and Diversity by Senta Goertler and Theresa Schenker (review) 2025-03-27 2025 TWO Project MUSE® 6687 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2025-03-27 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954611 <p></p> In Queer Livability, Ina Linge presents subversive and nuanced methodologies to locate subjectivity in German sexological life writings. These texts, especially given their role in forming modern concepts of sex, gender, and sexuality, have long stood to benefit from scholarly approaches that illuminate agency. The textual strategies Linge proposes underscore the negotiation and navigation of normative restraints as queer and trans* subjects in early-twentieth-century Germany sought to achieve &#x22;livability,&#x22; a term Linge borrows from Judith Butler that investigates how subjects forge legibility both within and despite existing political and institutional frameworks. Shifting the focus from sexological knowledge to ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954620">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/403/image/coversmall Queer Livability: German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing by Ina Linge (review) 2025-03-27 text/html en-US Queer Livability: German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing by Ina Linge (review) 2025-03-27 2025 TWO Project MUSE® 7254 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2025-03-27 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954612 <p></p> Ervin Malakaj&#39;s new monograph revisits the landmark Weimar-era film Anders als die Andern (1919; Different from the others). Part of McGill-Queen&#39;s University Press&#39;s Queer Film Classics series, Malakaj&#39;s book grounds the film in its historical and political context but also reads its potential contributions to an understanding of contemporary queerness.Malakaj draws on a wide range of analytical approaches for his reading of the film. He foregrounds the main text with a synopsis of the film, which exists only in fragmented form (xiii). A fascinating version history also gives special thanks to the restorationist who worked on the most recent DVD version of the film (xx). The introduction begins with Malakaj&#39;s own ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954620">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/403/image/coversmall Anders als die Andern by Ervin Malakaj (review) 2025-03-27 text/html en-US Anders als die Andern by Ervin Malakaj (review) 2025-03-27 2025 TWO Project MUSE® 4757 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2025-03-27 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954613 <p></p> &#x22;Why does early speculative fiction eliminate women&#39;s roles as mothers?&#x22; (1). This question informs Wendy C. Nielsen&#39;s study of &#x22;motherless creations&#x22; in French, German, British, and American literature from 1650 to 1890. Interested in automatons, sculptures, and monsters created by men, Nielsen asks what these narratives tell us about &#x22;human perfectibility through technology&#x22; (11) and the social anxieties that inform such narratives. Despite starting in 1650, the book clearly demonstrates the relevance of these texts for our transhumanist moment, in which advances in technology can make speculative visions of yesteryear our future reality.The book is organized into three parts, each of which begins with a short ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954620">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/403/image/coversmall Motherless Creations: Fictions of Artificial Life, 1650–1890 by Wendy C. Nielsen (review) 2025-03-27 text/html en-US Motherless Creations: Fictions of Artificial Life, 1650–1890 by Wendy C. Nielsen (review) 2025-03-27 2025 TWO Project MUSE® 6277 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2025-03-27 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954614 <p></p> In this innovative contribution to the scholarship on the Berlin School cinema, Simone Pfleger helps us make sense of the sometimes puzzling and even disturbing relationships between the films&#39; characters, who frequently seem to be at an impasse, whether engaged in messy intimate heterosexual relationships, in construction projects at their family homes, or oscillating between an attachment to normative conceptions of the &#x22;good life&#x22; and fleeting engagements in non-normative, queer acts. Using as her starting point philosophies of straight and queer time and phenomenology by theorists such as Sara Ahmed, Judith Butler, Lee Edelman, Elizabeth Freeman, Jack Halberstam, Heather Love, and Jos&#xE9; Esteban Mu&#xF1;oz, Pfleger ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954620">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/403/image/coversmall Untimely Bodies, Untimely Aesthetics: Temporality, Relationality, and Intimacy in the Cinema of the Berlin School by Simone Pfleger (review) 2025-03-27 text/html en-US Untimely Bodies, Untimely Aesthetics: Temporality, Relationality, and Intimacy in the Cinema of the Berlin School by Simone Pfleger (review) 2025-03-27 2025 TWO Project MUSE® 6558 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2025-03-27 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954615 <p></p> Edited by Simone Pfleger and Carrie Smith, Transverse Disciplines: Queer-Feminist, Anti-racist, and Decolonial Approaches to the University empowers the traditionally overlooked and marginalized to thrive in spaces of higher education and beyond. The volume&#39;s fourteen contributions bypass linear systems of thought, reject ethnonationalist modes of oppression, and eclipse siloed disciplinary isolation. Inspired by Lauren Berlant&#39;s distinction between structures and infrastructures, the contributors contemplate how change must &#x22;not only come at the level of structure (the structure of disciplines within an institution, structural racism in a professional organization, or the structure of the curriculum, for example) ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954620">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/403/image/coversmall Transverse Disciplines: Queer-Feminist, Anti-racist, and Decolonial Approaches to the University ed. by Simone Pfleger and Carrie Smith (review) 2025-03-27 text/html en-US Transverse Disciplines: Queer-Feminist, Anti-racist, and Decolonial Approaches to the University ed. by Simone Pfleger and Carrie Smith (review) 2025-03-27 2025 TWO Project MUSE® 6987 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2025-03-27 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954616 <p></p> Social Justice Pedagogies &#x22;speak(s) to the ways in which we all want to make our research, our classroom, and our institutions more just&#x22; (xii). While anyone already involved in making academia more just will find hands-on strategies to put social justice into practice, the book&#39;s strength also lies in its accessibility to readers who are less familiar with this topic.How, for instance, does social justice intersect with foreign languages? Jennifer Ruth Hosek wonderfully details how her telecollaboration platform addresses the luxury of learning languages by connecting classes globally. Virtual exchanges on culture between Americans and Latin Americans, as Diane Ceo-DiFranceso instructively chronicles, resulted in ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954620">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/403/image/coversmall Social Justice Pedagogies: Multidisciplinary Practices and Approaches ed. by Katrina Sark (review) 2025-03-27 text/html en-US Social Justice Pedagogies: Multidisciplinary Practices and Approaches ed. by Katrina Sark (review) 2025-03-27 2025 TWO Project MUSE® 6715 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2025-03-27 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954617 <p></p> Heidi Schlipphacke&#39;s The Aesthetics of Kinship: Form and Family in the Long Eighteenth Century reframes eighteenth-century German literature as a negotiation of complex kinship structures and notions of subjectivity. Schlipphacke offers an alternative narrative to the teleological ascent of the nuclear family and atomized individual, while proposing a reading practice with implications beyond the study&#39;s geographic and temporal scope. Drawing attention away from the family-centered plot, Schlipphacke demonstrates how attention to nonnarrative aesthetic form brings to light the persistence of shifting kinship groups in the eighteenth-century German drama and novel. This ambitious study offers new perspectives on ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954620">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/403/image/coversmall The Aesthetics of Kinship: Form and Family in the Long Eighteenth Century by Heidi Schlipphacke (review) 2025-03-27 text/html en-US The Aesthetics of Kinship: Form and Family in the Long Eighteenth Century by Heidi Schlipphacke (review) 2025-03-27 2025 TWO Project MUSE® 6805 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2025-03-27 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954618 <p></p> Sensitive and exquisitely well researched, Kira Thurman&#39;s Singing Like Germans; Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms is a transnational cultural history of Black musicians in Central Europe from the 1870s through the 1960s. Thurman contrapuntally traces how perceived notions of musical universalism intersected within increasingly prevalent practices of racial listening that affected the lives of Black classical musicians over the longue dur&#xE9;e. Singing Like Germans accompanies Black musicians in their sojourns as they acquired musical mastery and subsequently performed the results of their carefully practiced and skilled deftness in Germany and Austria.Thurman&#39;s analysis transcends prevalent ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954620">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/403/image/coversmall Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms by Kira Thurman (review) 2025-03-27 text/html en-US Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms by Kira Thurman (review) 2025-03-27 2025 TWO Project MUSE® 6685 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2025-03-27 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954619 <p></p> Anna von Rath&#39;s Afropolitan Encounters: Literature and Activism in London and Berlin is part of the Peter Lang series Imagining Black Europe. In addition to the introduction and conclusion, Rath&#39;s book comprises three parts, each containing two chapters.Following Susanne Gehrmann&#39;s understanding of Afropolitanism as cosmopolitanism with a privileged bonding to Africa (4), Rath asserts in her introduction that she intends &#x22;to explore what Afropolitanism does&#x22; (5). She describes Afropolitanism as &#x22;a global phenomenon&#x22; linked to European colonialism (6). As a cultural concept of mobility, Rath values Afropolitanism&#39;s potential as a framework for investigating contemporary issues (16).In part 1, &#x22;Emerging ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954620">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/403/image/coversmall Afropolitan Encounters: Literature and Activism in London and Berlin by Anna von Rath (review) 2025-03-27 text/html en-US Afropolitan Encounters: Literature and Activism in London and Berlin by Anna von Rath (review) 2025-03-27 2025 TWO Project MUSE® 7051 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2025-03-27 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954620 <p></p> Karin A. Wurst&#39;s study on domesticity (H&#xE4;uslichkeit) importantly calls attention to the overlooked breadth and depth of the bourgeois woman&#39;s work in the German home around 1800. Wurst argues that domesticity, &#x22;a web of practices, emotions, and values culminating in a certain emotional and physical ambience&#x2014;the &#39;feel&#39; of being at home and belonging&#x22; (2), was the dominant factor in the fulfillment of the Enlightenment project of the modern individual. Thus, the woman of the house could be considered the linchpin of the success or failure of nineteenth-century bourgeois society.Even as this model of domesticity and these attitudes &#x22;cement[ed] patriarchal structures&#x22; (202), the study is guided from the outset by the ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/954620">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/403/image/coversmall Imaginaries of Domesticity and Women's Work in Germany around 1800: Feeling at Home by Karin A. Wurst (review) 2025-03-27 text/html en-US Imaginaries of Domesticity and Women's Work in Germany around 1800: Feeling at Home by Karin A. Wurst (review) 2025-03-27 2025 TWO Project MUSE® 6489 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2025-03-27