The Beginnings of Modern Gendered Discourse in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany

Foreword Professor Russell West-Pavlov; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Gender and Orality in Kantian Thought; The Body of Art: Kant on Aesthetics and Perception; Sublime Masculine, Beautiful Feminine; Leaving Mother Nature; 2. Open and Closed Bodies; The Philosopher's Body; The Continent Male Body; The Female Body: A Leaky Vessel; 3. Orality Contained: The Ideal Feminine in German Popular Philosophy; Modesty as Female Destiny; Hungry Bodies, Hungry Minds; Consuming Wives; 4. Raising the Greedy Girl: Female Appetites in Pedagogical Discourses; Sophy's Silence; Excited Girls; Joachim Heinrich Campe and the Hungry Husband; Betty Gleim: Transcending Female Desire; 5. Modesty and Excess: Images of Orality in Goethe and Kleist; Goethe's Ottilie: 'Dringt nicht in mich!'; Luciane: Uninhibited Desire; Kleist's Penthesilea: 'Die Hungrige'; Offending the Aesthetic; Penthesilea's 'Mundigkeit'; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.