Heather Merle Benbow Livres

This book looks at the gender dimensions of orality in German culture and thought around 1800, bringing to new prominence orality as an important aspect of 18th century polarsation of the genders.

Marriage is a central trope in popular portrayals of Germany's largest ethnic minority. In exploring Turkish-German matrimony in popular genres including autoethnography, chick lit, wedding film and ethno-sitcom, this book reveals the fascinating interactions of gender, sexuality and ethnicity in contemporary Germany.