Watanabe-O'Kelly, Helen - Beauty or Beast?

A regiment of women warriors strides across the battlefield of German culture - on the stage, in the opera house, on the page, in paintings and prints. This book examines representations of the transgressive figure of the woman warrior from Cranach's painting of Judith, to Schiller's Joan of Arc, Wagner's Brunnhilde, and Fritz Lang's Brunhild.

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CONTENTS

Introduction and Acknowledgements
I Angels of Death - German Culture, Women Warriors, and Heroes
II Amazons - Warriors or Women?
III Many Ways to Die - Women Warriors and National Myth
IV Judith - Asking the Big Questions
V Death and the Maiden - Heroic Maidens from Schiller to Brecht
VI Unbecoming a Woman - the Woman Warrior as Cross-Dresser
VII Women's Imaginings - Warriors in Fiction
VIII Women's Voices - the Amazons, Judith, Charlotte Corday
Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index