Modern Germany & Europe
Women, Gender, & Sexuality

Office: 170 Schaeffer Hall

Office Hours: T/Th 1:30-3:30PM

Tel: (319) 335-2330

E-Mail: elizabeth-heineman@uiowa.edu

Research

Teaching

Publications

Awards &
Service

Teaching

Professor Heineman teaches classes on Germany and Europe in the twentieth century, the history of gender and sexuality in modern Europe, and Western Civilization. She also regularly teaches graduate seminars in modern European History. Courses recently taught include:

• 16:003 Western Civilization III
• 16E:051 Colloquium: Nazi Germany
• 16E:065 Europe Since 1945
• 16E:156 Germany Since 1914
• 16:233 Readings in Women, Men & Gender in Modern Europe
• 16:235 Seminar Modern Europe
• 16:254 Teaching Proseminar
  

Publications

• Before Porn was Legal: The World’s Largest Erotica Industry, West Germany after World War II (book in progress)
• Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones: From the Ancient World to the Era of Human Rights (edited book in progress)
• What Difference Does a Husband Make: Women and Marital Status in Nazi and Postwar Germany (University of California Press, 1999)
• "The History of Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones: Conference Report," Radical History Review, special issue "Women, Transnationalism, and Human Rights" 101 (2008): 5-21.
• "'The History of Morals in the Federal Republic': Advertising, PR, and the Beate Uhse Myth," in Selling Modernity: Advertising and Public Relations in Germany, ed. Pamela Swett, Jonathan Wiesen, Jonathan Zatlin. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007, pp. 202-229.
• "The Economic Miracle in the Bedroom: Big Business and Sexual Consumer Culture in Reconstruction West Germany," Journal of Modern History , 78/4 (2006): 846-877.
• "Der Beate Uhse Mythos Respektabilität, Geschichte und autobiographisches Marketing in der frühen Bundesrepublik," [The Beate Uhse Myth: Respectability, History, and autobiographical Marketing in the Early Federal Republic] WerkstattGeschichte 40 (2006).
• "Gender, Sexuality, and Coming to Terms with the Past in Germany, " Central European History, 38/1 (2005): 41-74.
• "Sexuality and Nazism: The Doubly Unspeakable?" Journal of the History of Sexuality 11/1-2 (2002): 22-66.
• "Gender, Public Policy, and Memory: Waiting Wives and War Widows in the Postwar Germanys," The Work of Memory: New Directions in the Study of German Society and Culture, ed. Peter Fritzsche and Alon Confino. University of Illinois Press (2002): 214-238.
• "Whose Mothers? Generational Difference, War, and the Nazi Cult of Motherhood," Journal of Women’s History 12/4 (2001): 139-163.
• "Single Motherhood and Maternal Employment in Divided Germany: Ideology, Policy, and Social Pressures," Journal of Women’s History 12/3 (2000): 146-173.
• "The Hour of the Women: Memories of Germany's 'Crisis Years' and West German National Identity" American Historical Review 101/2 (1996):354-95.
• "Complete Families, Half Families, No Families at All: Female-Headed Households and the Reconstruction of the Family in the Federal Republic of Germany," Central European History 29/1 (1996): 19-60.
• "Gender Identity in the Wandervogel Movement," German Studies Review 12 (1989): 249-70.
  

Awards & Service

• Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History, University of Iowa (2008-)
• Academic Coordinator, Sexuality Studies Program (2007-)
• Executive Board, University of Iowa Center for Human Rights (2007-)
• Faculty Scholar Award, University of Iowa (August 2004-July 2007)
• Howard Foundation Fellowship (August 2003-July 2004)
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2003)
• Dean's Scholar, University of Iowa (2002-2003)
• DAAD Faculty Fellowship (2000)
• American Philosophical Society Research Grant (1998)
• German Marshall Fund Fellowship (1997-1998)
• James Bryant Conant Fellowship, Center for European Studies, Harvard University (1995-1996)