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Divas, Divine Ms. M(other)s and Dykes*The Female Figure in Early German Cinema

Divas, Divine Ms. M(other)s and Dykes*
The Female Figure in Early German Cinema





















Matt Bissette
366-80-3343
Early German Cinema (G51.1301)
Spring 1999
Frau Doktor Assenka Oksiloff

*The term dyke here is not meant to attach a gendertype or stereotype with the emasculated female figure, but rather it denotes those women who choose to call themselves “dykes” within the lesbian and gay community.

“ … And you were so much more
Than any God could ever plan
More than a woman or a man … .
‘Cause with all the changes
you’ve been through,
It seems the stranger’s always you … .”

-Hedwig and the Angry Inch-

„Kreon:
Und sind Frauen auch nicht zum Guten geschickt, sind sie doch Meisterinnen des Bösen“
Euripedes, >Medea<

„Solbald die Weiber uns gleichgestellt sind, sind sie uns überlegen“
Cato


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