Ann Taylor Allen


Ann Taylor Allen is a professor of German history at the University of Louisville. Allen is the author of five books and more than twenty articles/reviews in peer-reviewed journals. She has a BA from Bryn [Mawr College], studied at the University of Hamburg, Germany with a Fulbright Fellowship, received an MA in 1967 from Harvard University and earned a PhD from Columbia University in 1974.

Books

  • Satire and Society in Wilhelmine Germany: Simplicissimus and Kladderadatsch, 1890–1914. Lexington, Kentucky, 1984.
  • Feminism and Motherhood in Germany, 1800–1914. New Brunswick, NJ, 1991.
  • Feminismus und Mütterlichkeit in Deutschland, 1800–1914. Weinheim, 2000. German version of Feminism and Motherhood, translated by Regine Othmer.
  • Feminism and Motherhood in Western Europe, 1890–1970: The Maternal Dilemma. New York, 2005.
  • Women in Twentieth-Century Europe, Houndmills, Basingstoke, 2008.
  • The Transatlantic Kindergarten: Education and Women's Movements in Germany and the United States. New York, 2017