Feminist Theory Website

Feminism in Germany

Germany

Feminists on
This Website:

Elisabeth M. de Sotelo

Marion Heinz

Christina von Braun

Other Feminists:

Andrea Abele-Brehm
Monika Barz
Ruth Becker

Regina Becker-Schmidt

Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim

Ursula Beer
Heike Behrend
Gisela Bock
Uta Brandes
Kathrin Braun
Angelika Cottman
Angelika Diezinger
Irene Dölling
Barbara Duden
Christel Eckart
Gisela Ecker

Uta Enders-Dragässer

Anette Engfer

Hannelore Faulstich-Wieland

Karin Flaake
Ute Frevert
Birgit Geissler

Ute Gerhard-Teuscher

Regine Gildemeister

Carol Hagemann-White

Katrin Hansen
Karin Hausen
Cornelia Hauser
Bettina Heintz
Marion Heinz
Hildegard Heise
Sabine Hering
Magdalene Heuser
Renate Hof

Barbara Holland-Cunz

Doris Janshen
Marlies Janz
Karin Jurczyk
Elke Kleinau
Irmgard Klönne

Gudrun-Axeli Knapp

Ulla Knapp
Gertrud Koch
Beate Krais
Helgard Kramer
Helga Krüger
Renate Kühn
Annette Kuhn
Nicola Lacey
Gudrun Lachenmann
Ingeborg Langen
Christiane Lemke
Ilse Lenz
Jutta Limbach
Gesa Lindemann
Verena Lobsien
Sigrit Metz-Göckel
Birgit Meyer

Elisabeth Meyer-Renschhausen

Ursula Müller
Renata Nestvogel
Hildegard Nickel
Irmgard Nippert
Mechtild Oechsle

Angela Paul-Kohlhoff

Ursula Pfäfflin
Claudia Pinl
Ulrike Prokop
Maria S. Rerrich

Barbara Riedmüller-Seel

Birgit Rommelspacher
Ursula Rust
Ulrike Schildmann

Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff

Eva Schönfelder
Marianne Schuller
Regina Schulte
Dagmar Schultz
Edith Seiffert
Inge Stephan
Katharina Sykora
Claudia Ulbrich
Irmela von der Lühe

Susanne von Falkenhausen

Karin Walser
Sigrid Weigel
Silke Wenk
Gisela Wilkending

Margret Wintermantel

Theresa Wobbe
Barbara Zibell

Internet Links

Datenbank zur Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Universität zu Köln, hier.

Women's and Gender Studies Database, University of Köln, can be reached here.

      Introduction

      This page contains information on feminism in Gemany, such as General Information, Aesthetics, History, and Literature.

      Bibliography

      General Information

      Beinssen-Hesse, Silke and Kate Rigby. Out of the Shadows: Contemporary German Feminism. Melbourne Univ. Press, 1996.

      deSotelo, Elisabeth. Feministische Hochschuldidaktik. Materialien der Koblenzer Frauenstudien. Münster: Lit-Verlag, 1998. (ISBN 3-8258-3631-2).

      deSotelo, Elisabeth. Frauen fallen durch. Eine kritische Begründung sozialpädogogischer Frauenbildungsarbeit. (ISBN 3-89271-330-8).

      deSotelo, Elisabeth. Neue Frauenbildung. (ISBN 3-924072-23-X).

      deSotelo, Elisabeth. Wissenschafliche Weiterbildung für Frauen. (ISBN 3-8258-3223-6).

      Kolinsky, Eva. Women in 20th-Century Germany: A Reader. Manchester Univ. Press, 1995.

      Nicol, Iain G., ed. Schleiermacher and Feminism: Sources, Evaluations, and Responses. 1992.

      Von Braun, Christina. Der Einbruch der Wohnstube in die Fremde. Bern, l987.

      Von Braun, Christina. Der Ewige Judenhass, Christlicher Antijudaismus, Deutschnationale Judenfeindlichkeit, Rassistischer Antisemitismus (Begleitbuch zur gleichnamigen Filmtrilogie), (hg. zusammen m. Ludger Heid) Stuttgart/Bonn, l990.

      Von Braun, Christina. Medien und Multiplizitaet. Geistesgesgeschichtliche Hintergruende eines modernen Krankheitsbildes. (hg. zus. mit Gaby Dietze) Frankfurt, 1998.

      Von Braun, Christina. Nicht ich. Logik Luege Libido. Frankfurt, l985.

      Von Braun, Christina. Die schamlose Schoenheit des Vergangenen, Zum Verhaeltnis von Geschlecht und Geschichte, Aufsaetze. Frankfurt, l989.

      von Braun, Christina and Inge Stephan, ed. In Vorbereitung: Einfuehrung in Gender Studies. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1999.

      Aesthetics

      Frieden, Sandra, ed. Gender and German Cinema: Feminist Interventions. Berg Pub. Ltd., 1993.

      McCormick, Richard W. Politics of the Self: Feminism and the Postmodern in West German Literature and Film. Princeton Univ. Press, 1991.

      O'Sickey, Ingerborg Majer and Ingerborg von Zadow, ed. Triangulated Visions: Women in Recent German Cinema. SUNY Press, 1998.

      Weinberger, Gabriele. Nazi Germany and Its Aftermath in Women Directors' Autobiographical Films of the Late 1970s: In the Murderers' House. Edwin Mellen Press, 1992.

      History

      Abrams, Lynn and Elizabeth Harvey, ed. Gender Relations in German History: Power, Agency, and Experience from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century. Duke Univ. Press, 1997.

      Adelson, Leslie A. Making Bodies, Making History: Feminism and German Identity. Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1993.

      Allen, Ann Taylor. Feminism and Motherhood in Germany, 1800-1914. Rutgers Univ. Press, 1991.

      Evans, Richard J. The Feminist Movement in Germany, 1894-1933. (out of print)

      Frevert, Ute. Women in German History: From Bourgeois Emancipation to Sexual Liberation. Berg Pub. Ltd., 1993.

      Grossman, Atina. Reforming Sex: The German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform. 1995.

      Reagin, Nancy R. A German Women's Movement: Class and Gender in Hanover, 1880-1993. Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1995.

      Literature

      Dodds, Dinah and Pam Allen-Thompson, ed. The Wall in My Backyard: East German Women in Transition. Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1994.

      Eigler, Friederike and Susanne Kord, ed. The Feminist Encyclopedia of German Literature. Greenwood Pub. Group, 1997.

      Stefan, Verena. Shedding and Literally Dreaming. Feminist Press, 1994.

      Weedon, Chris, ed. Post-War Women's Writing in German: Feminist Critical Approaches. Berghahn Books, 1997.

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