Margaret McCarthy is Professor of German Studies at Davidson College, where she also teaches film and media studies. She has published articles on contemporary German literature, film, and feminism in journals such as Camera Obscura, German Quarterly, New German Critique, and Oxford German Studies. She co-edited the Women in German Yearbook as well as Light Motives: German Popular Film in Perspective (2003). More recently she edited Pop Literature: A Companion (2015).

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Introduction

Chapter 1. German Feminism in the 2000s: Brains, Bodies, and Bridges
Chapter 2. Lost Objects, Monsters, and Melancholia in Zöe Jenny's The Pollen Room (1999), Alexa Hennig von Lange's Relax (1999), and Elke Naters' Lies (1999)
Chapter 3. Dialogical and Borderline Selfhood in Charlotte Roche's Wetlands (2008) and Wrecked (2011)
Chapter 4. Girls Gone Wild: Ulrike Meinhof, Uschi Obermeier, and Feminist Fantasies of '68
Chapter 5. Counter-Cinema, Crossing Bridges, and Future Feminisms: Christian Petzold's The State I Am In (2000) and Fatih Akin's The Edge of Heaven (2007)
Chapter 6. Mutable Mädchen: on Screen and in the Streets

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