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Due to the conception of women as ›physical reproducers‹ of the imagined community called nation, the german-nationalist discourse around 1900 discussed the ›beauty‹, the ›otherness‹, the ›motherhood‹, the ›healthiness‹ and ›illness‹ of the female body. The aim of the german-nationalist conceptions of the female body was a dissociation from people of other nations as well as an exclusion of those social groups who were considered as posing a threat to the nation from within. Imaginations of female body served to establish a national and gendered division of labour and to invent a historical ›Germanic‹ tradition. The female body was functionalized as a metaphor for the »Volks-Körper«, leading to its image of being the ›border of the nation‹. German-nationalist body-conceptions rejected women's efforts for political participation and authorized the oppression of self-determined behaviour of women. Female activists of the Südmark had to face these powerful images in nearly every sphere of life. However, german-nationalist female politicians and activists made use of the ambivalences of the national body conceptions to develop their own strategies of political behaviour. ; Due to the conception of women as ›physical reproducers‹ of the imagined community called nation, the german-nationalist discourse around 1900 discussed the ›beauty‹, the ›otherness‹, the ›motherhood‹, the ›healthiness‹ and ›illness‹ of the female body. The aim of the german-nationalist conceptions of the female body was a dissociation from people of other nations as well as an exclusion of those social groups who were considered as posing a threat to the nation from within. Imaginations of female body served to establish a national and gendered division of labour and to invent a historical ›Germanic‹ tradition. The female body was functionalized as a metaphor for the »Volks-Körper«, leading to its image of being the ›border of the nation‹. German-nationalist body-conceptions rejected women's efforts for political participation and authorized the oppression of self-determined behaviour of women. Female activists of the Südmark had to face these powerful images in nearly every sphere of life. However, german-nationalist female politicians and activists made use of the ambivalences of the national body conceptions to develop their own strategies of political behaviour.

Camps as a global and ubiquitous mass phenomenon of the present and a flexible isolation tool for/against specific socially, politically, or ethnically defined groups are at the centre of current policies and societal debates. In the present volume, the authors explore camps as (cultural) spaces in a broad sense and deal with their complex dimensions as sites of the Modern. They examine camp spaces and their social configurations, physical/architectural qualities, symbolic functions as well as cultural representations in an intent to define the inscribed ambivalences, inconsistencies and paradoxes of the phenomenon. Positioned within different disciplinary contexts (Contemporary History, Visual Studies, Architectural History, Refugee and Gender Studies), the assembled articles present a wide range of understandings and approaches to space, materiality and the relations between governance and agency. The contributors stress the entanglement of social structures, cultural discourse, institutionalisation, individual perception and appropriation. They show how the issue of camps can serve as cross-sectional matter for researchers in different fields in Cultural Theory and Contemporary History.

Die Begriffe »Grenze« bzw. »Grenzraum« verweisen auf vielfältige Bedeutungsebenen. Dieser Band rückt das Spannungsfeld von klar definierten Raum- und Grenzkonzepten sowie brüchigen, fragmentierten und widersprüchlichen sozialen Praktiken ins Blickfeld und fokussiert zugleich Konflikte, Reibungsflächen und Übergangszonen in »Grenzbereichen«. Exemplarische Fallstudien analysieren (zeit-)historisch relevante Themenfelder wie mehrsprachige/plurikulturelle (Grenz-)Regionen, Migrationen, Geschlechterverhältnisse, nationale und religiöse Identitäten, Handlungsspielräume sowie Erinnerungskulturen. Rezension Besprochen in: Fraunhofer IRB, 7 (2012) BZgA_Infodienst Migration, 3 (2012)d Reihe Edition Kulturwissenschaft - Band 18.