Gender in Germany and Beyond by Evans, Jennifer V.; Rose, Shelley E.;

Short description:

Jean Quataert’s former students, colleagues, and collaborators come together in Gender in Germany and Beyond to not only celebrate Quataert’s shaping of the field of modern German, Women’s and transnational history, but also to expand on that scholarship, setting a precedent for the future of the field.

Long description:

Jean Quataert redefined the boundaries of at least five historical fields including European socialism, women’s history and gender history, and international law and human rights. In this volume dedicated to her pioneering work, established and emerging scholars showcase the signature ways in which Quataert, as one of the discipline’s first women’s historians, has influenced how subsequent generations think about history writing as a form of intellectual activism. Gender in Germany and Beyond presents cutting edge historiographical commentary alongside new work which address subjects such as the history of German colonialism and women’s colonial leagues, human rights advocacy during the Cold War, and the complexities of turn of the century gay and lesbian rights organizing.

Table of Contents:

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List of Illustrations
Chronology

Introduction: Beginnings not Ends
Kathleen Canning and Jennifer V. Evans

Part I: Negotiating Gender

Chapter 1. Strategic Communities: Self-Fashioning, Political Dissent, and the Search for Homosexual Rights in Wilhelmine Germany
Glenn Ramsey

Chapter 2. “Why Do We Need the German Colonial Women’s League?” Reinventing Colonial Women’s Activism in Wartime and Weimar Germany, 1914-1926
K. Molly O’Donnell

Chapter 3. Marie Juchacz and Toni Sender: Socialism, Women’s Emancipation, and Weimar Politics
William Smaldone

Chapter 4. Gender Anxieties and Censorship in Weimar: Aufklärungsfilme and Article 118
Kara Ritzheimer

Part II: Mobilizing Human Rights

Chapter 5. Victimhood and Memory: Danube Swabians and the Ethnic Cleansing Campaigns in Yugoslavia, 1944-1948
Ute Ritz-Deutch

Chapter 6. Coming to Grips with American Racism: Anne Moody’s Human Rights Advocacy in Germany During the Late Cold War
Leigh Ann Wheeler

Chapter 7. Contested Progress: Women and Women’s Studies at East and West German Universities – The Example of the History Profession
Karen Hagemann

Chapter 8. Reluctant Activists: Human Rights, Cleveland’s Catholic Left, and El Salvador
Shelley E. Rose

Chapter 9. How Do People Use Human Rights, and What Happens When They Do? A Conversation with Jean H. Quataert
Lora Wildenthal

Afterword: The Politics of the Personal
Belinda Davis