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).

“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

• List of IllustrationsChronologyIntroduction: Beginnings not EndsKathleen Canning and Jennifer V. EvansPart I: Negotiating Gender Chapter 1. Strategic Communities: Self-Fashioning, Political Dissent, and the Search for Homosexual Rights in Wilhelmine GermanyGlenn RamseyChapter 2. “Why Do We Need the German Colonial Women’s League?” Reinventing Colonial Women’s Activism in Wartime and Weimar Germany, 1914-1926K. Molly O’DonnellChapter 3. Marie Juchacz and Toni Sender: Socialism, Women’s Emancipation, and Weimar PoliticsWilliam SmaldoneChapter 4. Gender Anxieties and Censorship in Weimar: Aufklärungsfilme and Article 118Kara RitzheimerPart II: Mobilizing Human RightsChapter 5. Victimhood and Memory: Danube Swabians and the Ethnic Cleansing Campaigns in Yugoslavia, 1944-1948Ute Ritz-DeutchChapter 6. Coming to Grips with American Racism: Anne Moody’s Human Rights Advocacy in Germany During the Late Cold WarLeigh Ann WheelerChapter 7. Contested Progress: Women and Women’s Studies at East and West German Universities – The Example of the History ProfessionKaren HagemannChapter 8. Reluctant Activists: Human Rights, Cleveland’s Catholic Left, and El SalvadorShelley E. RoseChapter 9. How Do People Use Human Rights, and What Happens When They Do? A Conversation with Jean H. QuataertLora WildenthalAfterword: The Politics of the PersonalBelinda Davis