Vol. 21 · No. 3 · Issue 68 · Fall 2003

Sara Hall

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Abstract

Since the 1980s, feminist scholars from a range of disciplines have challenged us to examine critically women's history in Germany between the world wars. The call has been for a more gender-specific account of Weimar citizens' roles as both the subjects and objects of social and cultural production. Atina Grossman, Patrice Petro, Katharina von Ankum, and others have provided illustrations of numerous ways in which the Weimar crisis in economic and political life was translated into a crisis of not just male but also female identity. Thanks to these scholars, we understand better how anxieties about unprecedented shifts in public life shaped the conditions under which the female population defined itself in both discourse and action.