Gender in Germany and Beyond

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).

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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