This volume is an introduction to the most significant topics in the anthropology field of gender. It draws not only from classic sources, but also from recent literature on gender roles and ideologies around the world.
In these essays the state of historiography and reflect on problems of theory and methodology are discussed. Through 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 power of the gender perspective to challenge existing interpretations and rewrite mainstream arguments. Contents: 1. Gendering Modern German History: Comparing Historiographies and Academic Cultures in Germany and the United States through the Lens of Gender / Karen Hagemann and Jean H. Quataert: 2. The Challenge of Gender: National Historiography, Nationalism, and National Identities / Angelika Schaser: 3. Military, War, and the Mainstreams: Gendering Modern German Military History / Karen Hagemann: 4. Blind Spots: Empire, Colonies, and Ethnic Identities in Modern German History / Birthe Kundrus: 5. The Personal Is Political: Gender, Politics, and Political Activism in Modern German History / Belinda Davis: 6. The Order of Terms: Class, Citizenship, and Welfare State in German Gender History / Kathleen Canning: 7. A Tributary and a Mainstream: Gender, Public Memory, and Historiography of Nazi Germany / Claudia A. Koonz: 8. Jews, Women, and Germans: Jewish and German Historiographies in a Transatlantic Perspective / Benjamin Maria Baader: 9. Religion and Gender in Modern German History: A Historiographical Perspective / Ann Taylor Allen: 10. Continuities and Ruptures: Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Germany: Historiography and its Discontents / Atina Grossmann: 11. The Elephant in the Living Room: Or Why the History of Twentieth-Century Germany Should Be a Family Affair / Robert G. Moeller