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Article: Women Writers and Fascism: Reconstructing History.
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- The Germanic Review
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- September 22, 1997
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Marie-Luise Gattens, Women Writers and Fascism: Reconstructing History Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995. Pp. 185.
Women Writers and Fascism: Reconstructing History is, as far as I know, the first single-author study in English of its kind. And Marie-Luise Gattens, an associate professor of German at Southern Methodist University who has contributed to the essential collection of its kind, Gender, Patriarchy and Fascism in the Third Reich: The Response of Women Writers (edited by Elaine Martin; Wayne State University Press, 1993), has delivered an admirable analytic archaeology. That is to say, her subtitle has a double meaning. It refers not only to ...