From biblical arousals to RAF corpse art; from Joy's feminist pornography to Dr Bitch Ray's bodily interventions, there is much to admire in this thought-provoking essay collection on the visual culture and politics of the body in real-world German contexts.

Michael Hau, author of Performance Anxiety: Sport and Work in Germany from the Empire to Nazism (2017), and Head of History, Monash University, Australia

How to Make the Body is a rich, multi-faceted volume that demonstrates the value of focusing on the body, and embodiment, in examining various aspects of visual culture in 20th and 21st-century German contexts […] and with a strong and welcome emphasis on feminist and queer approaches.

Rick McCormick, Professor of German, Nordic, Slavic, and Dutch, University of Minnesota, USA

Engaging with a diverse array of events, texts, and representations of lived experience, How to Make the Body powerfully mobilizes a range of cutting-edge theoretical approaches to generate new understandings of embodiment vital to German Studies and beyond.

Sara F. Hall, Associate Professor of Germanic Studies, University of Illinois Chicago, USA

Scholars will find much to inspire future research in this rich body of work.

German Studies Review

This well-written and beautifully illustrated collection addresses corporeality, difference, and embodiment in German contexts from the early modern period until the 2010s.

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