Changing visions and visualizations of gender, desire, and the body -- New woman, new body : female images by Vicki Baum, Christian Schad, and Otto Dix -- Representations of femininity : Vicki Baum's Helene and works by Gustav Klimt, Franz von Stuck, and Anselm Feuerbach -- The body between sex and violence : Franz Kafka's Brunelda and Otto Dix's Three women -- Looking to dominate : power and gender in Franz Kafka's Amerika and Egon Schiele's Seated male nude (self-portrait) -- Gender is in the eye of the beholder : the look of desire in Thomas Mann's The magic mountain and Christian Schad's Count St. Genois d'Anneaucourt
