Bøker av Lora Wildenthal

Explores the 19th-century assumption that the advancement of a society could be measured by its treatment of women. This book shows how race was an additional - and more concealed - factor embedded in the history, politics, and culture of both German feminism and German colonialism from the late 19th century to the Third Reich.

The Language of Human Rights in West Germany traces the four most important purposes for which West Germans invoked human rights after World War II. Lora Wildenthal demonstrates that human rights comprise a political language, best understood in its own domestic and historical context.