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Historical Research on Women in the Federal Republic of Germany

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Academic work on women’s history has been underway in West Germany for more than fifteen years.1 In the meantime, just as in the USA and Great Britain, although with a decided chronological delay, women’s history has become an established field of research. It has generated its own publication series, conferences, university chairs and, accompanied by a comparatively lively public and media response, it has created a new and independent ‘product market’.2

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  1. Ute Frevert
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University, USA

    Karen Offen

  2. The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, Canada

    Ruth Roach Pierson

  3. University of York, UK

    Jane Rendall

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Frevert, U., Wunder, H., Vanja, C. (1991). Historical Research on Women in the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Offen, K., Pierson, R.R., Rendall, J. (eds) Writing Women’s History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21512-6_17

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