Gendering modern German history : rewriting historiography / edited by Karen Hagemann and Jean H. Quataert.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hagemann, Karen, editor.

Quataert, Jean H. (Jean Helen), 1945- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory.

Historiography--Germany.

Historiography.

Historiography--United States.

Germany--Historiography--History.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Title Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Gendering Modern German History; Chapter 2 The Challenge of Gender; Chapter 3 Military, War, and the Mainstreams; Chapter 4 Blind Spots; Chapter 5 The Personal is Political; Chapter 6 The Order of Terms; Chapter 7 A Tributary and a Mainstream; Chapter 8 Jews, Women, and Germans; Chapter 9 Religion and Gender in Modern German History; Chapter 10 Continuities and Ruptures; Chapter 11 The Elephant in the Living Room; Bibliography; List of Contributors; Indexes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 6, 2014).

ISBN:

9780857457042

0857457047

OCLC:

974364738