Modern Germany & Europe
Women, Gender, & Sexuality

Office: 170 Schaeffer Hall

Office Hours:
M 10:00A-12:00P
and by appointment

Tel: (319) 335-2330

E-Mail: elizabeth-heineman@uiowa.edu

Research

Teaching

Publications

Awards &
Service

Teaching

The classes she usually teaches are on the history of Germany in the twentieth century, women's history in modern Europe, and Western Civilization. She also regularly teaches graduate seminars in modern European History. Courses recently taught include:

• 16E:156 Germany Since 1914: Weimar Hitler and After
• 16:003 Western Civilization III
• 16:233 Readings in Women, Men & Gender in Modern Europe
• 16:235 Seminar Modern Europe
• 16:254 Teaching Proseminar

Publications

• Sexual Consumer Culture in an Age of Affluence: Erotica in West Germany Before the Legalization of Pornography (book in progress)
• What Difference Does a Husband Make: Women and Marital Status in Nazi and Postwar Germany (University of California Press, 1999)
• "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. Reprinted in Sexuality and German Fascism, edited by Dagmar Herzog (Oxford, NY: Berghahn Books, 2005).
• “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.
• "The Hour of the Women: Memories of Germany's 'Crisis Years' and West German National Identity" American Historical Review 101/2 (1996):354-95. Reprinted as “Die Stunde der Frau: Erinnerungen an die ‘Krisenjahre’ und Westdeutsche Nationalidentität,” Auf Gewalt gegründet: Nachkrieg in Deutschland, ed. Klaus Naumann. Hamburger Edition (2001):149-177. Reprinted as "The Miracle Years: A Cultural History of West Germany, 1949-1968", edited by Hanna Schissler (Princeton University Press, 2001, pp. 21-56).
• “Single Motherhood and Maternal Employment in Divided Germany: Ideology, Policy, and Social Pressures,” Journal of Women’s History 12/3 (2000): 146-173.
• "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.

Awards & Service

• 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)