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Gender Studies

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Queer Livability

German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing

By Ina Linge
Subjects: German Studies, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Sexuality Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Reveals how queer and trans life writers use narrative strategies to create the possibility for a livable queer life

Marking Modern Movement

Dance and Gender in the Visual Imagery of the Weimar Republic

By Susan Funkenstein
Subjects: German Studies, Theater and Performance, Dance, Art, Gender Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

The dynamics between gender and body in Weimar Germany explored through images and case studies

Sex between Body and Mind

Psychoanalysis and Sexology in the German-speaking World, 1890s-1930s

By Katie Sutton
Subjects: History, Gender Studies, German Studies, Psychology
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A groundbreaking cross-disciplinary account of how sex became an object of scientific study in modernity
 

Not Straight from Germany

Sexual Publics and Sexual Citizenship since Magnus Hirschfeld

Edited by Michael Thomas Taylor, Annette Timm, and Rainer Herrn
Subjects: Gender Studies, History, German Studies, Psychology, Art
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Investigates the role of sex and sexuality in early 20th-century German culture, and how this past continues to shape the present

Passing Illusions

Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany

By Kerry Wallach
Subjects: German Studies, Jewish Studies, Gender Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Challenges the notion that Weimar Jews sought to be invisible or indistinguishable from other Germans by “passing” as non-Jews

 

Growing Up Female in Nazi Germany

By Dagmar Reese
Translated by William Templer
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

The first English-language account of the girls' division of the Hitler Youth

Other Germans

Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich

By Tina Marie Campt
Subjects: Race and Ethnicity, German Studies, History, Gender Studies, Diaspora Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Tells the story, through analysis and oral history, of a nearly forgotten minority under Hitler's regime

State of Virginity

Gender, Religion, and Politics in an Early Modern Catholic State

By Ulrike Strasser
Subjects: German Studies, History, Gender Studies, Religion
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

An important contribution to the historical study of sexuality and the growing feminist literature on the state

Gender in Transition

Discourse and Practice in German-Speaking Europe 1750-1830

Edited by Marion Gray & Ulrike Gleixner
Subjects: German Studies, History, European History, Gender Studies, European Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

The historical influence of gender on German society and change

Character Is Destiny

The Autobiography of Alice Salomon

Edited by Andrew Lees
Subjects: German Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

An autobiography by the famous Alice Salomon--the German Jane Addams

The Challenge of Modernity

German Social and Cultural Studies, 1890-1960

By Adelheid von Saldern
Translated by Bruce Little
Subjects: German Studies, History, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A collection of work in translation by the celebrated, influential German historian Adelheid von Saldern

Cities, Sin, and Social Reform in Imperial Germany

By Andrew Lees
Subjects: History, German Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Sociology
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

An important examination of the colorful histories of urbanization and social reform in Imperial Germany

Anna Seghers

The Mythic Dimension

By Helen Fehervary
Subjects: German Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A fascinating study of one of the greatest German woman writers of the twentieth century

Staging Philanthropy

Patriotic Women and the National Imagination in Dynastic Germany, 1813-1916

By Jean Helen Quataert
Subjects: History, German Studies, Gender Studies, Anthropology
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Patriotic Women and the National Imagination in Dynastic Germany, 1813-1916

Truth to Tell

German Women's Autobiographies and Turn-of-the-Century Culture

By Katharina Gerstenberger
Subjects: German Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Gender Studies, History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

What did "woman" mean at the fin-de-siècle?

Triumph of the Fatherland

German Unification and the Marginalization of Women

By Brigitte F. Young
Subjects: History, German Studies, Political Science, Comparative Politics, Gender Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Tells the story of the women who fought for a voice in the construction of a German state system

Feminine Frequencies

Gender, German Radio, and the Public Sphere 1923-1945

By Kate Lacey
Subjects: German Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Provides the first sustained historical account of the Frauenfunk, women's radio programming in Weimar and Nazi Germany

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