Mad Mädchen

<p> The last two decades have been transformational often discordant ones for German feminism as a new cohort of activists has come of age and challenged many of the movement's strategic and philosophical orthodoxies. <em>Mad Mädchen</em> offers an incisive analysis of these trans-generational debates identifying the mother-daughter themes and other tropes that have defined their representation in German literature film and media. Author Margaret McCarthy investigates female subjectivity as it processes political discourse to define itself through both differences and affinities among women. Ultimately such a model suggests new ways of re-imagining feminist solidarity across generational ethnic and racial lines.</p>