Review of: Isabelle Stauffer: Weibliche Dandys, blickmächtige Femmes fragiles. Köln u.a.: Böhlau Verlag 2008

Authors

  • Jens F. Heiderich Frauenlob-Gymnasium Mainz

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/744

Keywords:

Homosexualität, Sexualität, Körper, Theater, Kultur, Literatur, Macht, Repräsentation, Rollen, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

Stauffer presents an excellent study on the ironic staging of gender-specific topics. With literary historical precision, Stauffer contextualizes gender confusions during the fin de siècle with special consideration of the works of Annette Kolbs and Franziska zu Reventlow and with the help of an original methodological approach. Stauffer convincingly proves that the ironic approach to the femme fragile and the femme fatale, the decadents and the dandy functions to expose gender as a construction. Judith Butler’s theory on subversive performativity is proven to the letter. Stauffer believes, however, that the term irony is more precise for the description of these methods of gender construction than the term parody favored by Butler among others.

Author Biography

Jens F. Heiderich, Frauenlob-Gymnasium Mainz

Studienrat für die Fächer Deutsch und Französisch am Frauenlob-Gymnasium Mainz; Mitglied im wissenschaftlichen Beirat der Zeitschrift für Romanische Sprachen und ihre Didaktik (http://www.ZRomSD.de); Lehrbeauftragter für französische Fachdidaktik an der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Valentino Exhibit at Rome’s Ara Pacis by Susan Sanders

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Published

2009-07-07

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2009): Mode, Körper

Section

Schwerpunkt

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