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Book Review
Europe: Early Modern and Modern
Lora Wildenthal. German Women for Empire, 18841945. (Politics, History, and Culture.) Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2001. Pp. xi, 336. Cloth $59.95, paper $19.95.
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Lora Wildenthal's book on German colonialist women fits well into the new literature on European colonial empires. It places the German case at the heart of the debate and has much to say to an audience interested in the interactions and multiple exchanges between metropole and colony. Wildenthal offers a gender analysis, paying attention to the intersections of men's and women's colonial projects. Importantly, she situates these debates within the context of women's political mobilization in the German metropole, thus shedding new light on the wider project of feminism. Wildenthal shows the flow of ideas and leadership among colonialist women, those in patriotic associations and their dynastic sponsors and the moderate and radical feminists, ties that largely have escaped the attention of German women's historians. Her book takes on important questions of continuity in modern German history. |
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