Gender in Germany and Beyond: Exploring the Legacy of Jean Quataert

Published by Berghahn Books 2023

Gender in Germany and Beyond

Exploring the Legacy of Jean Quataert

Edited by: Jennifer V. Evans and Shelley E. Rose

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800739536

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Jennifer V. Evans is professor of European history at Carleton University in Ottawa Canada. She writes about German and transnational histories of sexuality, visual culture, social media and memory. Her second monograph, The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship after Fascism will be published by Duke University Press in the spring of 2023. Alongside her academic writing, she undertakes collaborative digital projects like the New Fascism Syllabus (www.NewFascismSyllabus.com) and the German Studies Collaboratory (www.GermanStudiesCollaboratory.org).

Shelley E. Rose is Associate Professor of History and Women’s & Gender Studies at Cleveland State University. She received her PhD from Binghamton University in 2010 where she was mentored by Jean Quataert. Her research focuses on digital humanities, protest and gender history. Recent articles include “Bertha von Suttner's Die Waffen nieder! and the Gender of German Pacifism” in Women Writing War, and “Place and Politics at the Frankfurt Paulskirche” in the Journal of Urban History.

Jennifer V. Evans is professor of European history at Carleton University in Ottawa Canada. She writes about German and transnational histories of sexuality, visual culture, social media and memory. Her second monograph, The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship after Fascism will be published by Duke University Press in the spring of 2023. Alongside her academic writing, she undertakes collaborative digital projects like the New Fascism Syllabus (www.NewFascismSyllabus.com) and the German Studies Collaboratory (www.GermanStudiesCollaboratory.org).

Reviews

“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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Chronology: The Professional Journey of Jean Quataert Publicly Available Download PDF	xii
Introduction. Beginnings, Not Ends Kathleen Canning and Jennifer Evans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I Negotiating Gender
Chapter 1. Strategic Communities: Gender Self-Fashioning, Political Dissent, and the Search for Homosexual Rights in Wilhelmine Germany Glenn B. Ramsey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Chapter 2. “Why Do We Need the German Colonial Women’s League?” Colonial Women’s Activism in Wartime and Weimar Germany, 1914–1926 K. Molly O’Donnell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Chapter 3. Marie Juchacz and Toni Sender: Socialism, Women’s Emancipation, and Weimar Politics William Smaldone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Chapter 4. Gender Anxieties and Censorship in Weimar: Aufklärungsfilme and Article 118 Kara Ritzheimer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Part II. Mobilizing Human Rights
Chapter 5. Victimhood and the Politics of Memory: The Expulsions of Danube Swabians from Yugoslavia, 1944–1948 Ute Ritz-Deutch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Chapter 6. Coming to Grips with American Racism: Anne Moody’s Human Rights Advocacy in Germany during the Late Cold War Leigh Ann Wheeler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Chapter 7. Contested Progress: Women and Women’s Studies in the East and West German Historical Profession Karen Hagemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Chapter 8. Reluctant Activists: Human Rights, Cleveland’s Religious Left, and El Salvador Shelley E Rose Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Chapter 9. How Do People Use Human Rights, and What Happens When They Do?: A Conversation with Jean H. Quataert Lora Wildenthal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
Afterword. Jean Quataert and the Politics of the Personal Belinda Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 256

eBook

Published: May 12, 2023
ISBN: 9781800739536