Description
Book Synopsis 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.
Trade Review “This is a collection of excellent scholarly historical essay honoring the late professor Jean H. Quataert. The articles by her colleagues and her former students further explore research themes (labor, law, and human rights) that were especially important features of Quataert’s own scholarly development” • Karen Offen, Stanford University
Table of Contents 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
