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The author examines motherhood and female self-realization in feminist discourse and Joyce Carol Oates’s recent fiction. While the first and second wave of feminism repudiated motherhood, the third wave claimed the right to enjoy it. The present fourth wave is now reviving the reservations about motherhood of the first two waves. This book demonstrates how Oates’s writing reflects these shifts and how Oates takes up and transforms feminist standpoints in her work without writing conventional feminist literature. Literary criticism has only marginally dealt with Oates’s mother figures. Drawing on Gender Studies and, in particular, on the transnational relation between French and American feminism, this book fills this gap.

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Systemische Paarberatung bietet Unterstützung bei der Ausgestaltung einer Paarbeziehung an. Erstgespräche haben in Beratungsprozessen einen besonderen Stellenwert, da hier eine Übereinkunft hergestellt wird, wie gemeinsam gehandelt werden soll und damit die institutionelle Dimension besonders hervortritt. Zusammengefasst zeigt sich Paarberatung als institutionalisiertes Setting vor allem im Adressierungsprozess fragil. Das Buch untersucht diese komplexe Interaktion zwischen Beratenden und Adressat*innen auf der Mikroebene mittels der Objektiven Hermeneutik und rekonstruiert latente für den weiteren Beratungsverlauf wirkmächtige Strukturen der Rahmensetzungen. Es geht dabei um eine strukturtheoretische Perspektive, die den Fokus auf die wenig erforschten reziproken Prozesse der Herstellung als Adressat*innen herausarbeitet. Die Studie verdeutlicht die Abhängigkeit der latenten Adressierungen von der Strukturierung des Paarberatungsprozesses und geschlechtlichen Differenzierungen im System der kulturellen Zweigeschlechtlichkeit.

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The work examines the interaction of scientific practices and religious lifestyle using the example of southern German monasteries in the second half of the 18th century. Monastic natural research formed an inward-looking scientific culture, the specific characteristics of which essentially resulted from the pragmatic connection between monastic life and research practice. However, the effect of monastic natural research went well beyond the borders of the monastery. Religious scholars played a key role in shaping the scientific landscape in southern Germany, especially with regard to collective working methods and standardization. The study closes an important gap in the understanding of early modern scholarship by including the monasteries, which have so far received little attention alongside universities and academies, as places of knowledge production. In doing so, she not only focuses on handwritten source material from astronomical observations and physical experiments, but also takes into account the material culture of the measuring devices and demonstration experiments.

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