Edward Ross Dickinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 987998 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward Ross Dickinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward Ross |
| FAMILY NAME | Dickinson |
| SIGNATURE | DICKINSON E R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Teaching History in Higher Education: Ethics, Aims, Methods
What are the distinctive characteristics of the discipline of history? How do we teach those characteristics effectively, and what benefits do they offer students? How can history instructors engage an increasingly diverse student body? Teaching History in Higher Education offers instructors an innovative and coherent approach to their discipline, addressing the specific advantages that studying history can bring. Edward Ross Dickinson examines t…
Sexuality in Modern German History, by Katie Sutton
Journal Article Sexuality in Modern German History, by Katie Sutton Get access Sexuality in Modern German History, by Katie Sutton (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023; pp. 344. £21.99) Edward Dickinson Edward Dickinson University of California, Davis, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, ceae175, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae175 Published: 27 August 2…
Thomas Adam. Philanthropy, Civil Society, and the State in German History, 1815–1989
Thomas Adam’s Philanthropy, Civil Society, and the State in German History, 1815–1989, presents a highly readable overview of philanthropic funding for a range of important institutions in modern German society, including museums (primarily of art), fellowships and stipends for university students and teachers, zoos, libraries, archaeological projects, research institutes, and affordable housing provision. The book combines concise and intelligen…
Complexity, Contingency, and Coherence in the History of Sexuality in Modern Germany: Some Theoretical and Interpretive Reflections
The politics of sexuality in modern Germany was complicated, contradictory, and multivalent. Reflecting on how to conceptualize that complexity is worthwhile, for doing so allows us to formulate multiple interpretive perspectives. After briefly sketching two of the most common scholarly interpretations, this article explores the usefulness of a third model, one in which the political dynamic of the broad and complex debate about sexuality is neit…
Sex, Freedom, and Power in Imperial Germany, 1880–1914
This is a study of the intense, complex, and escalating debate over sexuality and sexual morality that roiled politics in Germany between 1880 and 1914. That debate was grounded in the rapid evolution and growing complexity of German society - the multiplication of cultural groupings, professional associations, and social movements; the emergence of new social groups, social milieus, and professions; the rapid development of the media and commerc…
Modern Dance Before 1914: Commerce or Religion
The popularity of modern dance in Europe before 1914 can be explained in part by its astute appeal to a range of aesthetic and moral registers important to diverse segments of the new urban “mass” market of the period, and by its success in building a complex of co-marketing strategies with other cultural endeavors including film, fashion, ballet, opera, and both academic and avant-garde art. At the same time, modern dance was also able to positi…
Not So Scary After All? Reform in Imperial and Weimar Germany
An interesting interpretive standpoint has come in recent years to characterize synthetic treatments of Imperial and Weimar Germany, and oddly, it is most often laid out in connection with discussions of reform and reformers. The history of reform in early twentieth-century Germany, we now consistently hear, is more complex than we once thought, and this fact is a central piece of evidence that early twentieth-century Germany, too, was more compl…
The German Empire: An Empire
The ‘Aufarbeitung ’ – the exploration or investigation – of Germany’s imper-ial past has been one of the more exciting developments in the recent histor-iography of modern Germany, and a crucial element in the recent discussion among German historians of the potentials of transnational history. A growing flood of studies of German imperial policy, life and death in the German colonies, German colonialist organizations, German colonial literature,…
Policing Sex in Germany, 1882-1982: A Preliminary Statistical Analysis
Policing Sex in Germany, 1882–1982: A Preliminary Statistical Analysis Edward Ross Dickinson University of California, Davis Most historians today understand the social functions of the modern state broadly in the terms of a model that has been developed—and debated—over the past five or six decades. That model had its origins in the theories of the early modern state proposed by Norbert Elias, Paul Oestreich, and others as early as the 1940s; it…
Gender History in Practice: Historical Perspectives on Bodies, Class, and Citizenship
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A Dark, Impenetrable Wall of Complete Incomprehension”: The Impossibility of Heterosexual Love in Imperial Germany
In the years around the turn of the twentieth century, the “war between the sexes” was a major topic of public discussion and concern in Germany—in the daily press, in academic sexology journals and organizations, among medical and psychiatric professionals, in the women's movements, among conservative Christians, in art and music. Jacques Le Rider has even referred to the “obsessive leitmotif of male-female confrontation” in central European cul…
Dominion of the Spirit over the Flesh: Religion, Gender and Sexual Morality in the German Women's Movement before World War I
This article examines the place of religious values in the thinking of leading figures in the mainstream German women's movement in the period before World War I. Focusing on the debate of sexual morality and abortion within the German League of Women's Associations, it argues that the position taken by these women is best understood as a product of their religious commitments, rather than their political ideas. The article seeks to place these w…
The Historiography of Sexuality in Modern Germany
In this introductory essay the editors suggest that the field of the history of sexuality in general and in modern Germany in particular has been organized around a complex of questions posed by the discourse theory of Foucault and other post-structuralists. The model proposed by these theorists and elaborated in the historical literature of the past twenty years has given us a coherent and widely influential narrative of the development of moder…
Biopolitics, Fascism, Democracy: Some Reflections on Our Discourse About “Modernity”
In recent years the outlines of a new master narrative of modern German history have begun to emerge in a wide range of publications. This narrative draws heavily on the theoretical and historical works of Michel Foucault and Detlev J. K. Peukert, and on the earlier work of the Frankfurt School, Max Weber, and the French theorists of postmodernism. In it, rationalization and science, and specifically the extended discursive field of “biopolitics”…
The Men's Christian Morality Movement in Germany, 1880-1914: Some Reflections on Politics, Sex, and Sexual Politics
Sex, Masculinity, and the "Yellow Peril": Christian von Ehrenfels' Program for a Revision of the European Sexual Order, 1902-1910
Edward Ross Dickinson, Sex, Masculinity, and the "Yellow Peril": Christian von Ehrenfels' Program for a Revision of the European Sexual Order, 1902-1910, German Studies Review, Vol. 25, No. 2 (May, 2002), pp. 255-284
Until the Stubborn Will is Broken: Crisis and Reform in Prussian Reformatory Education, 1900—34
Making Security Social: Disability, Insurance, and the Birth of the Social Entitlement State in Germany
Reflections on Feminism and Monism in the Kaiserreich, 1900–1913
The League for the Protection of Motherhood (Bund für Mutterschutz und Sexualreform, or BfM) was the largest and most active sex-reform organization in Germany before the First World War. The league was at the center of a broad debate about sexuality, gender roles, the family, and population policy, in which representatives not only of the women's movements but also of the Christian churches, the medical and psychiatric establishments, and the se…
Welfare, Democracy, and Fascism: The Political Crises in German Child Welfare, 1922-1933
Citizenship, Vocational Training, and Reaction: Continuation Schooling and the Prussian ‘Youth Cultivation’ Decree of 1911
Biopolitics, Fascism, Democracy: Some Reflections on Our Discourse About “Modernity”
In recent years the outlines of a new master narrative of modern German history have begun to emerge in a wide range of publications. This narrative draws heavily on the theoretical and historical works of Michel Foucault and Detlev J. K. Peukert, and on the earlier work of the Frankfurt School, Max Weber, and the French theorists of postmodernism. In it, rationalization and science, and specifically the extended discursive field of “biopolitics”…
Gender History in Practice: Historical Perspectives on Bodies, Class, and Citizenship
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Reflections on Feminism and Monism in the Kaiserreich, 1900–1913
The League for the Protection of Motherhood (Bund für Mutterschutz und Sexualreform, or BfM) was the largest and most active sex-reform organization in Germany before the First World War. The league was at the center of a broad debate about sexuality, gender roles, the family, and population policy, in which representatives not only of the women's movements but also of the Christian churches, the medical and psychiatric establishments, and the se…
The German Empire: An Empire
The ‘Aufarbeitung ’ – the exploration or investigation – of Germany’s imper-ial past has been one of the more exciting developments in the recent histor-iography of modern Germany, and a crucial element in the recent discussion among German historians of the potentials of transnational history. A growing flood of studies of German imperial policy, life and death in the German colonies, German colonialist organizations, German colonial literature,…
The Historiography of Sexuality in Modern Germany
In this introductory essay the editors suggest that the field of the history of sexuality in general and in modern Germany in particular has been organized around a complex of questions posed by the discourse theory of Foucault and other post-structuralists. The model proposed by these theorists and elaborated in the historical literature of the past twenty years has given us a coherent and widely influential narrative of the development of moder…
The Men's Christian Morality Movement in Germany, 1880-1914: Some Reflections on Politics, Sex, and Sexual Politics
A Dark, Impenetrable Wall of Complete Incomprehension”: The Impossibility of Heterosexual Love in Imperial Germany
In the years around the turn of the twentieth century, the “war between the sexes” was a major topic of public discussion and concern in Germany—in the daily press, in academic sexology journals and organizations, among medical and psychiatric professionals, in the women's movements, among conservative Christians, in art and music. Jacques Le Rider has even referred to the “obsessive leitmotif of male-female confrontation” in central European cul…
Complexity, Contingency, and Coherence in the History of Sexuality in Modern Germany: Some Theoretical and Interpretive Reflections
The politics of sexuality in modern Germany was complicated, contradictory, and multivalent. Reflecting on how to conceptualize that complexity is worthwhile, for doing so allows us to formulate multiple interpretive perspectives. After briefly sketching two of the most common scholarly interpretations, this article explores the usefulness of a third model, one in which the political dynamic of the broad and complex debate about sexuality is neit…
Not So Scary After All? Reform in Imperial and Weimar Germany
An interesting interpretive standpoint has come in recent years to characterize synthetic treatments of Imperial and Weimar Germany, and oddly, it is most often laid out in connection with discussions of reform and reformers. The history of reform in early twentieth-century Germany, we now consistently hear, is more complex than we once thought, and this fact is a central piece of evidence that early twentieth-century Germany, too, was more compl…
Dominion of the Spirit over the Flesh: Religion, Gender and Sexual Morality in the German Women's Movement before World War I
This article examines the place of religious values in the thinking of leading figures in the mainstream German women's movement in the period before World War I. Focusing on the debate of sexual morality and abortion within the German League of Women's Associations, it argues that the position taken by these women is best understood as a product of their religious commitments, rather than their political ideas. The article seeks to place these w…
Citizenship, Vocational Training, and Reaction: Continuation Schooling and the Prussian ‘Youth Cultivation’ Decree of 1911
Welfare, Democracy, and Fascism: The Political Crises in German Child Welfare, 1922-1933
Citizenship, Vocational Training, and Reaction: Continuation Schooling and the Prussian ‘Youth Cultivation’ Decree of 1911
Making Security Social: Disability, Insurance, and the Birth of the Social Entitlement State in Germany
Reflections on Feminism and Monism in the Kaiserreich, 1900–1913
The League for the Protection of Motherhood (Bund für Mutterschutz und Sexualreform, or BfM) was the largest and most active sex-reform organization in Germany before the First World War. The league was at the center of a broad debate about sexuality, gender roles, the family, and population policy, in which representatives not only of the women's movements but also of the Christian churches, the medical and psychiatric establishments, and the se…
Sex, Masculinity, and the "Yellow Peril": Christian von Ehrenfels' Program for a Revision of the European Sexual Order, 1902-1910
Edward Ross Dickinson, Sex, Masculinity, and the "Yellow Peril": Christian von Ehrenfels' Program for a Revision of the European Sexual Order, 1902-1910, German Studies Review, Vol. 25, No. 2 (May, 2002), pp. 255-284
Until the Stubborn Will is Broken: Crisis and Reform in Prussian Reformatory Education, 1900—34
The Men's Christian Morality Movement in Germany, 1880-1914: Some Reflections on Politics, Sex, and Sexual Politics
Biopolitics, Fascism, Democracy: Some Reflections on Our Discourse About “Modernity”
In recent years the outlines of a new master narrative of modern German history have begun to emerge in a wide range of publications. This narrative draws heavily on the theoretical and historical works of Michel Foucault and Detlev J. K. Peukert, and on the earlier work of the Frankfurt School, Max Weber, and the French theorists of postmodernism. In it, rationalization and science, and specifically the extended discursive field of “biopolitics”…
Dominion of the Spirit over the Flesh: Religion, Gender and Sexual Morality in the German Women's Movement before World War I
This article examines the place of religious values in the thinking of leading figures in the mainstream German women's movement in the period before World War I. Focusing on the debate of sexual morality and abortion within the German League of Women's Associations, it argues that the position taken by these women is best understood as a product of their religious commitments, rather than their political ideas. The article seeks to place these w…
The Historiography of Sexuality in Modern Germany
In this introductory essay the editors suggest that the field of the history of sexuality in general and in modern Germany in particular has been organized around a complex of questions posed by the discourse theory of Foucault and other post-structuralists. The model proposed by these theorists and elaborated in the historical literature of the past twenty years has given us a coherent and widely influential narrative of the development of moder…
Policing Sex in Germany, 1882-1982: A Preliminary Statistical Analysis
Policing Sex in Germany, 1882–1982: A Preliminary Statistical Analysis Edward Ross Dickinson University of California, Davis Most historians today understand the social functions of the modern state broadly in the terms of a model that has been developed—and debated—over the past five or six decades. That model had its origins in the theories of the early modern state proposed by Norbert Elias, Paul Oestreich, and others as early as the 1940s; it…
Gender History in Practice: Historical Perspectives on Bodies, Class, and Citizenship
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A Dark, Impenetrable Wall of Complete Incomprehension”: The Impossibility of Heterosexual Love in Imperial Germany
In the years around the turn of the twentieth century, the “war between the sexes” was a major topic of public discussion and concern in Germany—in the daily press, in academic sexology journals and organizations, among medical and psychiatric professionals, in the women's movements, among conservative Christians, in art and music. Jacques Le Rider has even referred to the “obsessive leitmotif of male-female confrontation” in central European cul…
The German Empire: An Empire
The ‘Aufarbeitung ’ – the exploration or investigation – of Germany’s imper-ial past has been one of the more exciting developments in the recent histor-iography of modern Germany, and a crucial element in the recent discussion among German historians of the potentials of transnational history. A growing flood of studies of German imperial policy, life and death in the German colonies, German colonialist organizations, German colonial literature,…
Not So Scary After All? Reform in Imperial and Weimar Germany
An interesting interpretive standpoint has come in recent years to characterize synthetic treatments of Imperial and Weimar Germany, and oddly, it is most often laid out in connection with discussions of reform and reformers. The history of reform in early twentieth-century Germany, we now consistently hear, is more complex than we once thought, and this fact is a central piece of evidence that early twentieth-century Germany, too, was more compl…
Modern Dance Before 1914: Commerce or Religion
The popularity of modern dance in Europe before 1914 can be explained in part by its astute appeal to a range of aesthetic and moral registers important to diverse segments of the new urban “mass” market of the period, and by its success in building a complex of co-marketing strategies with other cultural endeavors including film, fashion, ballet, opera, and both academic and avant-garde art. At the same time, modern dance was also able to positi…
Sex, Freedom, and Power in Imperial Germany, 1880–1914
This is a study of the intense, complex, and escalating debate over sexuality and sexual morality that roiled politics in Germany between 1880 and 1914. That debate was grounded in the rapid evolution and growing complexity of German society - the multiplication of cultural groupings, professional associations, and social movements; the emergence of new social groups, social milieus, and professions; the rapid development of the media and commerc…
Complexity, Contingency, and Coherence in the History of Sexuality in Modern Germany: Some Theoretical and Interpretive Reflections
The politics of sexuality in modern Germany was complicated, contradictory, and multivalent. Reflecting on how to conceptualize that complexity is worthwhile, for doing so allows us to formulate multiple interpretive perspectives. After briefly sketching two of the most common scholarly interpretations, this article explores the usefulness of a third model, one in which the political dynamic of the broad and complex debate about sexuality is neit…
Thomas Adam. Philanthropy, Civil Society, and the State in German History, 1815–1989
Thomas Adam’s Philanthropy, Civil Society, and the State in German History, 1815–1989, presents a highly readable overview of philanthropic funding for a range of important institutions in modern German society, including museums (primarily of art), fellowships and stipends for university students and teachers, zoos, libraries, archaeological projects, research institutes, and affordable housing provision. The book combines concise and intelligen…
Sexuality in Modern German History, by Katie Sutton
Journal Article Sexuality in Modern German History, by Katie Sutton Get access Sexuality in Modern German History, by Katie Sutton (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023; pp. 344. £21.99) Edward Dickinson Edward Dickinson University of California, Davis, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, ceae175, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae175 Published: 27 August 2…
Teaching History in Higher Education: Ethics, Aims, Methods
What are the distinctive characteristics of the discipline of history? How do we teach those characteristics effectively, and what benefits do they offer students? How can history instructors engage an increasingly diverse student body? Teaching History in Higher Education offers instructors an innovative and coherent approach to their discipline, addressing the specific advantages that studying history can bring. Edward Ross Dickinson examines t…
Political science (18 works) · Law (17 works) · European history and politics (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Politics (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · History (10 works) · German (9 works) · Human sexuality (8 works)