Gendering Modern German History : : Rewriting Historiography / / ed. by Karen Hagemann, Jean H. Quataert.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Canning, Kathleen,; Davis, Belinda,; Grossmann, Atina,; Hagemann, Karen,; Koonz, Claudia,; Kundrus, Birthe,; Maria Baader, Benjamin,; Moeller, Robert G.,; Quataert, Jean H.,; Schaser, Angelika,; Taylor Allen, Ann,
• HerausgeberIn: Hagemann, Karen,; Quataert, Jean H.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)

Writing on the history of German women has - like women's history elsewhere - undergone remarkable expansion and change since it began in the late 1960s. Today Women's history still continues to flourish alongside gender history but the focus of research has increasingly shifted from women to gender. This shift has made it possible to make men and masculinity objects of historical research too. After more than thirty years of research, it is time for a critical stocktaking of the "gendering" of the historiography on nineteenth and twentieth century Germany. To provide a critical overview in a comparative German-American perspective is the main aim of this volume, which brings together leading experts from both sides of the Atlantic. They discuss in their essays the state of historiography and reflect on problems of theory and methodology. Through compelling case studies, focusing on the nation and nationalism, military and war, colonialism, politics and protest, class and citizenship, religion, Jewish and non-Jewish Germans, the Holocaust, the body and sexuality and the family, this volume demonstrates the extraordinary power of the gender perspective to challenge existing interpretations and rewrite mainstream arguments.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1. GENDERING MODERN GERMAN HISTORY -- 2. THE CHALLENGE OF GENDER -- 3. MILITARY, WAR, AND THE MAINSTREAMS -- 4. BLIND SPOTS -- 5. THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL -- 6. THE ORDER OF TERMS -- 7. A TRIBUTARY AND A MAINSTREAM -- 8. JEWS, WOMEN, AND GERMANS -- 9. RELIGION AND GENDER IN MODERN GERMAN HISTORY -- 10. CONTINUITIES AND RUPTURES -- 11. THE ELEPHANT IN THE LIVING ROOM -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS -- INDEX OF NAMES -- SUBJECT INDEX