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In her autobiography, Alice Salomon describes how she became involved in social work and devoted her life to social activism and education, became a prolific author and leading feminist of her time. Her account ends with her expulsion from Germany and emigration to America in 1937.
Unified Germany continues to confront problems of social inequality and widespread resistance to the acceptance of a truly multicultural society. By exploring how West Germans confronted - or failed to confront - similar problems in the early history of the Federal Republic, this collection makes a crucial contribution to understanding the present.
Capitalizes on the ripeness of the German case for interdisciplinary investigation
Reveals the relationship between the rise of political violence in West Germany to the unprecedented growth of consumption
Recount the ways in which this drama - ""Gender in Transition"" - played out in German-speaking Europe during the transitional period from 1750 to 1830. This work examines the effects of gender in numerous realms of German life, including law, urban politics, marriage, religion, literature, natural science, fashion, and personal relationships.
Explores the dynamic between German-speaking and Middle Eastern states and empires from the time of the Crusades to the end of the Cold War. This insightful study illuminates the complex relationships among literary and other writings on the one hand, and economic, social, and political processes and material dimensions on the other.
Argues that Weimar photographic books stood at the center of debates about photography's ability to provide uniquely visual forms of perception and cognition that exceed the capacity of the textual realm. Each chapter provides a sustained analysis of a photographic book, while also bringing the cultural, social, and political context of the Weimar Republic to bear on its relevance and meaning.
Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science was founded in Berlin in 1919 as a place of research, political advocacy, counselling, and public education. It was destroyed in 1933 as the first target of the Nazi book burnings. Not Straight from Germany examines its legacy, combining essays and a lavish array of visual materials.
Examines jazz music and the jazz artists who shaped Germany's exposure to this African American art form from 1919 to 1933. Jonathan O. Wipplinger explores the history of jazz in Germany as well as the roles that music, race (especially Blackness), and America played in German culture and follows the debate over jazz through the fourteen years of Germany's first democracy.
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