Alice Weinreb
Biographic Data
| ID | 3741894 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alice Weinreb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alice |
| FAMILY NAME | Weinreb |
| SIGNATURE | WEINREB A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Age of Anorexia and the Weight of the Holocaust
This essay analyzes the rise of anorexia nervosa during the 1980s, a decade sometimes called the Age of Anorexia, by focusing on a metaphor that became widespread at the time: the anorexic girl as concentration camp inmate. The article traces the metaphor to its origins in postwar medical research, mostly carried out by Jewish doctors working in the aftermath of the Holocaust, on the long-term psychological and physiological impacts of extreme hu…
The Law of Blood
The Law of Blood: Thinking and Acting as a NaziJohann Chapoutot Johann Chapoutot, The Law of Blood: Thinking and Acting as a Nazi (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018), 512 pp., hardcover $35.00, electronic version available. Alice Weinreb Alice Weinreb Loyola University Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 34, Issue 2, Fall 2020, Pages 3…
World War I and the Origins of the Modern Food System
This forum explores how the demands of World War I shaped industrial food production, state control over distribution, and cultures of food consumption. As the belligerent nations strained to mobilize their full resources, the production of food was arguably as important as munitions, and indeed the two were linked, since the Haber-Bosch process for synthesizing ammonia, invented shortly before the outbreak of the war, was used to make both gunpo…
Gewalt, Zurichtung, Befreiung? Individuelle ‘Ausnahmezustände’ in 20. Jahrhundert
At least since 11 September 2001, politicians, military leaders and social critics have increasingly asserted that we are living in a ‘state of exception’ or ‘state of emergency’. In response, the concept has come under scrutiny from scholars across the disciplines. Much of the academic literature on states of exception has been either theoretical or has focused on top-down analyses of states and their expressions of collective power. This anthol…
Modern Hungers
This book explores Germany’s role in the two world wars and the Cold War to analyze the food economy of the twentieth century. It argues that controlling food supply and determining how and what people ate shaped the course of these three wars. Because Germany played a central role in these conflicts, the political and economic ambitions of its changing governments had international ramifications. At the same time, focusing on changing methods of…
Poverty and Welfare in Modern German History
When I first moved to Berlin in 1999, debates over the country’s welfare system were ubiquitous. The spread of poverty throughout the former GDR, especially among East German women who suffered disproportionately from the dismantling of East Germany’s social support system and who found it near-impossible to find full-time employment, famously made them the ‘losers of reunification’, and prompted both East and West Germans to question the economi…
The Greenest Nation? A New History of German Environmentalism
Frank Uekötter’s most recent book fills an important gap in environmental history as well as in German history. An admirably concise survey of environmental thinking and policy in Germany over the entire twentieth century–stretching into the twenty-first—this book will prove useful for courses on environmental history looking for case studies outside the United States, as well as for modern German surveys looking for incorporate environmental his…
For the Hungry Have No Past nor Do They Belong to a Political Party
When World War II finally came to an end, the Allied forces were primed to face a world of hunger. Since the earliest days of the conflict, experts throughout Europe and Asia had been predicting that the unfathomable scale of the war would result in a massive and permanent restructuring of the global food economy. Military victory itself was cast as inextricably intertwined with control over foodstuffs. In 1940, the British nutritionist and futur…
For the Hungry Have No Past nor Do They Belong to a Political Party
When World War II finally came to an end, the Allied forces were primed to face a world of hunger. Since the earliest days of the conflict, experts throughout Europe and Asia had been predicting that the unfathomable scale of the war would result in a massive and permanent restructuring of the global food economy. Military victory itself was cast as inextricably intertwined with control over foodstuffs. In 1940, the British nutritionist and futur…
World War I and the Origins of the Modern Food System
This forum explores how the demands of World War I shaped industrial food production, state control over distribution, and cultures of food consumption. As the belligerent nations strained to mobilize their full resources, the production of food was arguably as important as munitions, and indeed the two were linked, since the Haber-Bosch process for synthesizing ammonia, invented shortly before the outbreak of the war, was used to make both gunpo…
For the Hungry Have No Past nor Do They Belong to a Political Party
When World War II finally came to an end, the Allied forces were primed to face a world of hunger. Since the earliest days of the conflict, experts throughout Europe and Asia had been predicting that the unfathomable scale of the war would result in a massive and permanent restructuring of the global food economy. Military victory itself was cast as inextricably intertwined with control over foodstuffs. In 1940, the British nutritionist and futur…
The Greenest Nation? A New History of German Environmentalism
Frank Uekötter’s most recent book fills an important gap in environmental history as well as in German history. An admirably concise survey of environmental thinking and policy in Germany over the entire twentieth century–stretching into the twenty-first—this book will prove useful for courses on environmental history looking for case studies outside the United States, as well as for modern German surveys looking for incorporate environmental his…
Modern Hungers
This book explores Germany’s role in the two world wars and the Cold War to analyze the food economy of the twentieth century. It argues that controlling food supply and determining how and what people ate shaped the course of these three wars. Because Germany played a central role in these conflicts, the political and economic ambitions of its changing governments had international ramifications. At the same time, focusing on changing methods of…
Poverty and Welfare in Modern German History
When I first moved to Berlin in 1999, debates over the country’s welfare system were ubiquitous. The spread of poverty throughout the former GDR, especially among East German women who suffered disproportionately from the dismantling of East Germany’s social support system and who found it near-impossible to find full-time employment, famously made them the ‘losers of reunification’, and prompted both East and West Germans to question the economi…
Gewalt, Zurichtung, Befreiung? Individuelle ‘Ausnahmezustände’ in 20. Jahrhundert
At least since 11 September 2001, politicians, military leaders and social critics have increasingly asserted that we are living in a ‘state of exception’ or ‘state of emergency’. In response, the concept has come under scrutiny from scholars across the disciplines. Much of the academic literature on states of exception has been either theoretical or has focused on top-down analyses of states and their expressions of collective power. This anthol…
World War I and the Origins of the Modern Food System
This forum explores how the demands of World War I shaped industrial food production, state control over distribution, and cultures of food consumption. As the belligerent nations strained to mobilize their full resources, the production of food was arguably as important as munitions, and indeed the two were linked, since the Haber-Bosch process for synthesizing ammonia, invented shortly before the outbreak of the war, was used to make both gunpo…
The Law of Blood
The Law of Blood: Thinking and Acting as a NaziJohann Chapoutot Johann Chapoutot, The Law of Blood: Thinking and Acting as a Nazi (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018), 512 pp., hardcover $35.00, electronic version available. Alice Weinreb Alice Weinreb Loyola University Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 34, Issue 2, Fall 2020, Pages 3…
The Age of Anorexia and the Weight of the Holocaust
This essay analyzes the rise of anorexia nervosa during the 1980s, a decade sometimes called the Age of Anorexia, by focusing on a metaphor that became widespread at the time: the anorexic girl as concentration camp inmate. The article traces the metaphor to its origins in postwar medical research, mostly carried out by Jewish doctors working in the aftermath of the Holocaust, on the long-term psychological and physiological impacts of extreme hu…
European history and politics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Economic history (3 works) · German (3 works) · World War II (3 works)