Gender Relations In German History: Power, Agency And Experience From The Sixteenth To The Twentieth Century

by Lynn Abrams (Editor), Elizabeth Harvey (Editor)

This collection of essays examines the construction of gender norms in early modern and modern Germany.; The modes of reinforcement by the state, the church, the law and marriage, and the resistance to these norms by individuals, are central to each of the contributions.; It examines discourses of the body and sexuality and the relations between gender and power. Similarly, the usefulness of the "public/private paradigm" familiar to gender historians is further challenged.

Genres: History, Germany

272 pages, Hardcover

First published September 26, 1996

About the author

Lynn Abrams is Professor of Gender History at the University of Glasgow.

Reviews

[Denise Kettering · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is an interesting collection of essays that trace issues related to gender in the modern period. The essays cover a wide-range of issues related to women's work, sexuality, consumer habits, and so forth. The essays show the varieties of ways that gender played a role in power dynamics in German history. If you are looking for a collection on a concentrated time period, this is not it, but if you want to have a broad overview of gender and German history from the 1500s through the mid-twentieth century, this collection contains a nice overview of different issues.