Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-248) and index.
German feminism in the 2000s : brains, bodies, and bridges -- Lost objects, monsters, and melancholia in Zöe Jenny's The Pollen Room (1999), Alexa Hennig von Lange's Relax (1999), and Elke Naters's Lies (1999) -- Dialogical and borderline selfhood in Charlotte Roche's Wetlands (2008) and Wrecked (2011) -- Girls gone wild : Ulrike Meinhof, Uschi Obermaier, and feminist fantasies of '68 -- Counter-cinema, crossing bridges, and future feminisms : Christian Petzold's The State I Am In (2000) and Fatih Akin's The Edge of Heaven (2007) -- Mutable Mädchen : on screen and in the streets