Grete Meisel-Hess

• Verfasst von: Thorson, Helga [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Grete Meisel-Hess
• Titelzusatz: the new woman and the sexual crisis
• Verf.angabe: Helga Thorson
• Verlagsort: Rochester, New York
• Verlag: Camden House
• Jahr: 2022
• Umfang: xiv, 278 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Format: 23 cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Women and gender in German studies
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-268) and index
• ISBN: 978-1-64014-103-2
• Schlagwörter: (p)Meisel-Hess, Grete
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Thorson, Helga: Grete Meisel-Hess. - Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2022
• RVK-Notation: GM 7651
• K10plus-PPN: 1816560189

Abstract

"Grete Meisel-Hess (1879-1922), a contemporary of Freud, Schnitzler, and Klimt, was a feminist voice in early-twentieth-century modernist discourse. Born in Prague to Jewish parents and raised in Vienna, she became a literary presence with her 1902 novel Fanny Roth. Influenced by many of her contemporaries, she also criticized their notions of gender and sexuality. Relocating to Berlin, she continued to write fiction and began publishing on sexology and the women's movement. Helga Thorson's book combines a literary-cultural exploration of modernism in Vienna and Berlin with a biography of Meisel-Hess and a critical analysis of her works. Focusing on Meisel-Hess's negotiations of feminism, modernism, and Jewishness, it illustrates the dynamic interplay between gender, sexuality, and race/ethnicity in Austrian and German modernism. Analyzing Meisel-Hess's fiction as well as her sexological studies, Thorson argues that Meisel-Hess posited herself as both a "New Woman" and the writer of the "New Woman." The book draws on extensive archival research that uncovered new sources including an unpublished drama, letters scattered in various collections across Europe, and Meisel-Hess's medical history. Until now there have been only limited secondary sources about Meisel-Hess, most containing errors and omissions regarding her biography. This is the first book on Meisel-Hess in English"--