Course Readings & Translations

Sally Alexander. "Women, Class, and Sexual Differences in the 1830s and 1840s" in Culture/Power/History Edited by Nicholas B. Dirks, Geoff Eley and Sherry B. Ortner.

Ann Taylor Allen, "German Radical Feminism and Eugenics," German Studies Review 11 (1988), 31-56.

Anna Altmann, "Leaves and Blossoms." [1912] (Translation by M.J. Maynes.)

May Ayim, "das Jahr 1990," [The year 1990] in Ika Hügel, Entfernte Verbindungen . 206-212. (Translation by Katja Guenther.)

Selected poetry by May Ayim

Friderika Baldinger, Life Story of Friderika Baldinger [1791]. (Translation by Rita Bashaw.)

Angelika Bammer "Mastery" (En)Gendering Knowledge: Feminists in Academe. Joan Hartman and Ellen-Messer-Davidow. Knoxville: Univ of Tennesee Press. 1991,   237-258.

Ulrike Baureithel, "Feindliche Schwestern: Vom schwierigen Umgang der deutsch-deutschen Frauenbewegung miteinander" [Hostile sisters: on the difficulties in East-West German feminist relations] in Stiefschwestern: Was Ost-Frauen und West-Frauen voneinander denken, ed. Katrin Rohnstock [1994],148-158. (Translation by Leo Riegert).

Selections from Bitter Healing: Philippine Gatterer Engelhardt, Caroline Auguste Fischer, "William the Negro" [1817], Philippine Gatterer Engelhardt, "A Girl's Lament," Sophie von la Roche, "Two Sisters."

Gisela Bock, "Racism and Sexism in Nazi Germany" in When Biology Became Destiny edited by Renate Bridenthal and Claudi Koontz.

Antoinette Burton, "The White Woman's Burden. British Feminists and 'The Indian Woman," 1865-1915," in M. Strobel and N. Chaudhuri, eds. Western Women and Imperialism, 137-157.

Craig Calhoun, "'New social movements' of the early 19th century" in Kate Nash, ed. Readings in Contemporary Political Sociology [Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2000].

Drude Dahlerup "Continuity and waves in the feminist movement: a challenge to social movement theory" Pp 59-78 in Hilda Rømer Christensen, Beatrice Halsaa, Aino Saarinen, 2004. Crossing Borders: remapping women's movements at the turn of the 21 st century. University Press of Southern Denmark, Odense DK

Daniela Dahn.  "A Kind Fate:   a semi-public birthday letter for Christa Wolf." From:   Dahn, Daniela.  Demokratischer Abbruch: von Trümmern und Tabus. Hamburg: Rowohlt, 2005.    132-40. Trans. Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres

Excerpts from Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women's Liberation Movement, Rosalyn Baxandall, Linda Gordon (eds)

"Declaration of the Rights of Man" [1789]

Olympe de Gouges, "Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen." [1791]

Victoria de Grazia, How Fascism Ruled Women. Italy, 1922-1945, Ch. 3, "Motherhood."

Jeanne Deroin, selections from Tribune des femmes and other publications.

Louise Dittmar, "Das Wesen der Ehe" [1849]. (Translation by Rita Bashaw and Ruth-Ellen Joeres) plus excerpts in Herminghouse and Mueller, 67-68 and 186-188.

Hedwig Dohm,"Jugenderinnerungen einer alten Berlinerin." [1912]   (Translation by Rita Bashaw.)

Hedwig Dohm, "Woman Versus Woman [ Weib contra Weib ]." Die Antifeministen: Ein Buch der Verteidigung . Berlin: Ferd. Dümmlers Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1902: 80-137. (Translation by Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres.)

Rita Felski, "Politics, Aesthetics and the Feminist Public Sphere" in Beyond Feminist Aesthetics: Feminist Literature and Social Change [Harvard UP, 1989], 154-182 plus notes.

Myra Marx Ferree, Manuscript draft:   Chapter 3 ("Women themselves will decide: Autonomous feminist mobilization 1968-78") and Chapter 4 ("Women help women: The women's project movement, 1975-85")

Myra Marx Ferree, "Patriarchies and feminisms: the two women's movements of unified Germany" Social Politics 1995, 2(1): 10-24.

Myra Marx Ferree & Carol McClurg Mueller, "Feminism and the Women's Movement: A Global Perspective."   576-607 in The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements, edited by David A. Snow, Sarah A. Soule, and Hanspeter Kriesi, 2004.

Julie Gottlieb, 'Female Fanatics: Women's Sphere in the British Union of Fascists', in eds. M. Powers and P. Bacchetta, Right Wing Women: From Conservatives to Extremists Around the World, (New York: Routledge, 2002)

Dagmar Herzog, "Liberalism, Religious Dissent and Women's Rights: Louise Dittmar's Writings from the 1840s," in In Search of a Liberal Germany, ed. K. Jarausch and Larry Jones (1989).

Winifred Holtby, from Women and a Changing Civilization [1934], 111-116.

Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres, "Radicality, Gender, and the Ambiguity of Representation," Chap. 3 of Respectability and Deviance: Nineteenth-Century German Women Writers and the Ambiguity of Representation . [Chicago: U Chicago P, 1998] 78-138. [pages 78-97] [pages 98-119] [pages 120-137]

"Aufruf an alle Frauen," [Appeal to all women] in Cordelia Kahlau Aufbruch! (Translation by Katja Guenther.)

Linda Kerber, "The Republican Mother and the Woman Citizen: Contradictions and Choices in Revolutionary America," in Women's America: Refocusing the Past. Edited by Linda K. Kerber and Jane Sherron de Hart [New York, 2004].

Claudia Koonz, "The Competition for Women's Lebensraum , 1928-1934" in Bridenthal, R. et al, eds., When Biology Became Destiny. Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany.

Helene Lange, "Intellectual Boundaries between Man and Woman." [1928, 1897] (Translation by Katja Guenther and Mary Jo Maynes.)

Darlene Gay Levy and Harriet B. Applewaite, "A Political revolution for Women? The Case of Paris," in Bridenthal, Stuard and Wiesner, eds. Becoming Visible. Women in European History 3rd ed. [New York, 1998], 265-294.

Michael Mann, Fascists (Cambridge, 2004) - Ch 1 A sociology of fascist movements, 1-30

Mary Jo Maynes, "Conclusion: Autobiography and History," in Taking the Hard Road, 187-205.

Ingrid Miethe, "Changes in the spaces of political activism: transforming East Germany." Pp   315-333 in Biographies and the Division of Europe: Experience, Action and Change on the 'Eastern' side. Roswitha Brecknere, Devorah Kakelin-Fishman and Ingrid Miethe (eds) Leske+Budrich, 2000.

Elizabeth Mittman, "Now You See Her, Now You Don’t: The Emergence and Disappearance of Eastern German Women’s Magazines" (draft) Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3, Figure 4, Figure 5, Figure 6, Figure 7, Figure 8, Figure 9, Figure 10, Figure 11

Irmtraud Morgner, "Kaffee verkehrt." (Translation by Katja Guenther.)

May Opitz (Ayim), "On Everyday Racism," and "Three Afro-German Women in Conversation with Dagmar Schultz," in Showing Our Colors , 125-144 and 145-165.

Louise Otto, The Women's Newspaper [1849] excerpts (Translation by Leo Riegert.)

Adelheid Popp Autobiography excerpts

Pamela Beth Radcliff, "Imagining female citizenship in the 'new Spain': gendering the democratic transition, 1975-78." Pp 72-97 in Gender, Citizenships and Subjectivities. Kathleen Canning and Sonya Rose (eds). Blackwell 2002.

Reichskommittee of Working Women, "Aufruf." [1932]

Leila J. Rupp, "Sexuality and Politics in the Early Twentieth Century: The Case of the International Women's Movement," Feminist Studies 23 (Fall 1997): 577-605.

Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, speech to the Nazi women's organization [1935]

Joan Scott, "Gender: A useful category for historical analysis." American Historical Review, Dec. 1986, 1053-1075.

Seneca Falls Declaration

Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women [1792] excerpt in Rossi (ed.) The Feminist Papers

"Women for a New Constitution (Frankfurt a/M): Manifesto"