Writing on the history of German women has – like women’s history elsewhere – undergone remarkable expansion and change since it began in the late 1960s. Today Women’s history still continues to flourish alongside gender history but the focus of research has increasingly shifted from women to gender. This shift has made it possible to make men and masculinity objects of historical research too. After more than thirty years of research, it is time for a critical stocktaking of the ‚gendering‘ of the historiography on nineteenth and twentieth century Germany. To provide a critical overview in a comparative German-American perspective is the main aim of this volume, which brings together leading experts from both sides of the Atlantic. They discuss in their essays the state of historiography and reflect on problems of theory and methodology. Through compelling case studies, focusing on the nation and nationalism, military and war, colonialism, politics and protest, class and citizenship, religion, Jewish and non-Jewish Germans, the Holocaust, the body and sexuality and the family, this volume demonstrates the extraordinary power of the gender perspective to challenge existing interpretations and rewrite mainstream arguments.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
Karen Hagemann and Jean H. Quataert
Chapter 1. Gendering Modern German History: Comparing Historiographies and Academic Cultures in Germany and the United States through the Lens of Gender
Karen Hagemann and Jean H. Quataert
Chapter 2. The Challenge of Gender: National Historiography, Nationalism, and National Identities
Angelika Schaser
Chapter 3. Military, War, and the Mainstreams: Gendering Modern German Military History
Karen Hagemann
Chapter 4. Blind Spots: Empire, Colonies, and Ethnic Identities in Modern German History
Birthe Kundrus
Chapter 5. The Personal Is Political: Gender, Politics, and Political Activism in Modern German History
Belinda Davis
Chapter 6. The Order of Terms: Class, Citizenship, and Welfare State in German Gender History
Kathleen Canning
Chapter 7. A Tributary and a Mainstream: Gender, Public Memory, and Historiography of Nazi Germany
Claudia A. Koonz
Chapter 8. Jews, Women, and Germans: Jewish and German Historiographies in a Transatlantic Perspective
Benjamin Maria Baader
Chapter 9. Religion and Gender in Modern German History: A Historiographical Perspective
Ann Taylor Allen
Chapter 10. Continuities and Ruptures: Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Germany: Historiography and its Discontents
Atina Grossmann
Chapter 11. The Elephant in the Living Room: Or Why the History of Twentieth-Century Germany Should Be a Family Affair
Robert G. Moeller
Selected Bibliography
Contributing Authors
Index
Über den Autor
Jean H. Quataert is Professor of German History and Women’s Studies at Binghamton University, SUNY. She teaches human rights history and global women’s history on the undergraduate level and, for graduate students, specialized courses in German history in the context of Germany’s place in Europe and the globalizing world.
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