Mine-Haha: Or on the Bodily Education of Young Girls

by Frank Wedekind

Book Overview

At once a dystopian fantasy and a critique of sexual norms, Mine-Haha describes a unique boarding institution for girls--part idyllic refuge, part prison--where pupils are trained only in the physical arts of movement, dance, and music, before issuing them into an adult world for which they have (unwittingly) been prepared. The narrator is an old woman recalling her strange childhood and the story is focused through the eyes of her earlier...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843914557
• ISBN13: 9781843914556
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Hesperus Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.8" x 7.6"