Session Details

Thursday, 27 December

48. Women and Crime in the German Context

3:30–4:45 p.m., Superior A, Sheraton Chicago

Program arranged by Women in German

Presiding: Pauline Ebert, Wayne State Univ.

1. “Criminal Women and Criminology in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Gender, Moral Culpability, and Social Dangerousness,” Karsten Uhl, Technische Universität Darmstadt

2. “The Female Poetics of Crime in E. T. A. Hoffmann’s ‘Das Fräulein von Scuderi,’” Anita R. McChesney, Univ. of Notre Dame

3. “Women in National Socialism: Victims or Perpetrators?” Christina Herkommer, Freie Universität Berlin

4. “No Woman or Trace of Woman? Femininity and the Queer Detective,” Faye Stewart, Indiana Univ., Bloomington

Respondent: Alexandra Pakh, Wayne State Univ.

For copies of abstracts, visit www.womeningerman.org.

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