Suggested Readings in German Women's and Gender History

Ann Taylor Allen. Feminism and Motherhood in Germany 1900-1914 (New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1991).

Gisela Bock. "Antinationalism, Maternity and Paternity in National Socialist Racism." In Giesela Bock and Pat Thane, eds., Maternity and Gender Policies: Women and the Rise of the European Welfare States 1880-1950 (New York: Routledge, 1991), pp. 233-255.

Michael Burleigh and Wolfgang Wippermann. The Racial State: Germany 1933-1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991).

Renate Bridenthal, Atina Grossmann, Marion Kaplan, eds. When Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany (New York: Monthly Review, 1984).

Kathleen Canning. "Feminist History After the Linguistic Turn: Historicizing Discourse and Experience." Signs 19:2 (Winter 1994): 368-404.

Kathleen Canning. "Gender and the Politics of Class Formation: Rethinking German Labor History." American Historical Review 97:3 (19??): 736-68. [book forthcoming from Cornell UP]

Jane Caplan. "Postmodernism, Poststructuralism and Deconstruction: Notes for Historians." Central European History 22:3/4 (1989): 119-137.

Gabiele Czarnowski. Das kontrollierte Paar. Ehe und Sexualpolitik im Nationalsozialismus (Weinheim: Deutscher Studien Verlag, 1991).

Ute Daniel. "Women's Work in Industry and Family: Germany 1914-18." In Richard Wall, Jay Winder, eds., The Upheaval of War: Family, Work and Welfare in Europe 1914-1918

Belinda Davis. "Food Scarcity and the empowerment of the Female Consumer in World War I Germany." In Victoria de Grazia and Ellen Furlough, eds., The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective (Berkeley: U of California Press, forthcoming).

Barbara Duden. The Woman Beneath the Skin: A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth Century Germany (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1991).

Heide Fehrenbach. Cinema in Democratizing Germany: Reconstructing National Identity after Hitler (Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1995).

Ute Frevert. Women in German History: From Bourgeois Emancipation to Sexual Liberation (Providence: Berg Press, 1989).

Ute Frevert. Mann und Weib und Weib und Mann: Geschlechter-Differenzen in der Moderne (Munich: Beck, 1995).

Ute Gerhard. "German Women and the Social Costs of Unification." German Politics and Society, Winter 1991-2.

Atina Grossmann. Reforming Sex: The German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform 1920-1950 (New York: Oxford UP, 1995).

Atina Grossmann. "A Question of Silence: The Rape of German Women by Occupation Soldiers." October 72 (Spring 1995): 43-63.

Atina Grossmann. "Girlkultur or Thoroughly Rationalized Female: A New Woman in Weimar Germany?" In J. Friedlander et al., eds., Women in Culture and Politics (Bloomington: U of Indiana P, 1986).

Atina Grossmann. "Feminist Debates about Women and National Socialism." Gender and History 3:3 (Autumn 1991): 350-358.

Karin Hausen. "Unemployment Also Hits Women: The New and the Old Woman on the Dark Side of the Golden Twenties in Germany." In Peter D. Stachura, ed., Unemployment and the Great Depression in Weimar Germany (London: Macmillan, 1986), pp. 72-120.

Karin Hausen. "Family and Role Division: The Polarisation of Sexual Stereotypes in the Nineteenth Century -- An Aspect of the Dissociation of Work and Family Life." In Richard Evans and W.R. Lee, eds., The German Family (London: Croom Helm, 1981), pp. 51-83.

Isabel V. Hull. "The Bourgeoisie and its Discontents: Reflections on Nationalism and Respectability." Journal of Contemporary History 17:2 (1982): 247-68.

Isabel V. Hull. "Feminist and Gender History Through the Literary Looking Glass: German Historiography in Postmodern Times." Central European History 22:3/4 (1989): 279-300.

Andreas Huyssen. "Mass Culture as Woman: Modernism's Other." In Huyssen, After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1986).

Marion Kaplan. The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family and Identity in Imperial Germany (New York: Oxford UP, 1993).

Marion Kaplan. "Jewish Women in Nazi Germany: Daily Life, Daily Struggles, 1933-1939." Feminist Studies (Spring 1991). [book will be forthcoming in next few years]

Eva Kolinsky. Women in Contemporary Germany: Life, Work, and Politics, 2nd edition (Providence: Berg Press, 1993).

Claudia Koonz. Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family and Nazi Politics (New York: St. Martin's, 1987).

Claudia Koonz. "Eugenics, Gender, and Ethics in Nazi Germany: The Debate about Involuntary Sterilization, 1933-1936." In Thomas Childers and Jane Caplan, eds., Reevaluating the Third Reich (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1993), pp. 66-85. [see also the similar piece in Boyer and Geyer collection on resistance in Nazi Germany]

Alf Lüdtke. "What Happened to the 'Fiery Red Glow'? Workers' Experiences and German Facism." In Lüdtke, ed., The History of Everyday Life: Reconstructing Historical Experiences and Ways of Life (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1995). [or just about anything else by Lüdtke]

Martha Mamozai. Schwarze Frau, Weiße Herrin (Reinbek b. Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1989).

October 72 (Spring 1995), special issue on "Berlin 1945: War and Rape, Liberators Take Liberties."

May Opitz, et al., eds. Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out.

Patrice Petro. Joyless Streets: Women and Melodramatic Representation in Weimar Germany (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1989).

Detlev J.K. Peukert. The Weimar Republic: The Crisis of Classical Modernity (New York: Hill and Wang, 1989).

Mary Nolan. Visions of Modernity: American Business and the Modernization of Germany (New York: Oxford UP, 1994).

Robert Moeller. Protecting Motherhood: Women and the Family in the Politics of Postwar West Germany (Berkeley: U of California P, 1992).

Jean Quataert. "The Politics of Rural Industrialization: Class, Gender, and Collective Protest in the Saxon Oberlausitz of the Late Nineteenth Century." Central European History 20:2 (June 1987): 91-124.

Nancy Reagin. A German Women's Movement: Class and Gender in Hanover, 1880-1933 (Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1995).

Carola Sachse. Siemens, der Nationalsozialismus und die moderne Familie. Eine Untersuchung zur sozialen Rationalisierung in Deutschland im 20. Jahrhundert (Hamburg: Rasch und Röhring, 1990).

Claudia Schoppmann. Nationalsozialistische Sexualpolitik und weibliche Homosexualität (Pfaffenweiler: Centaurus, 1991).

Klaus Theweleit. Male Fantasies. Women, Floods, Bodies, History (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1987).

Cornelie Usborne. The Politics of the Body in Weimar Germany. Women's Reproductive Rights and Duties (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1992).

Paul Weindling. "Eugenics and the Welfare State During the Weimar Republic." In W.R. Lee and Eve Rosenhaft, eds., The State and Social Change in Germany 1880-1980 (1990), pp. 131-160.

Lora Wildenthal. "'She is the Victor': Bourgeois Women, Nationalist Identities and the Ideal of the Independent Woman Farmer in German Southwest Africa." In Daniel A. Segal and Richard Handler, eds., Nations, Colonies and Metropoles, No. 33 (September 1993), pp. 68-88.

Theresa Wobbe, ed. Nach Osten. Verdeckte Spuren nationalsozialistischer Verbrechen (Frankfurt/M.: Neue Kritik, 1992). [gender and Täter]

Atina Grossmann
Columbia University

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