GENDERED DIFFERENCE, VIOLENT IMAGINATION - BLOOD, RACE, NATION

Racism, misogyny, and the propagation of politicomilitary violence are analyzed as an integral part of the construction of Western modernity . With a focus on German public culture, the author emphasizes the int erplay of gender and race against the background of medical models, do cumenting how fears of natural disasters (women, Jews, refugees) and m edical pathologies such as dirt and infection (bodily infestations) ar e continuously recycled to reinforce a racialist postmodern culture.