Appendices

List of Selected Book Publications by Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres

Compiled by Brian Vetruba (Oct. 4, 2019)

Sources: Academic Search Complete, BDSL, MLA International Bibliography, and WorldCat

Bammer, Angelika, and Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres, editors. The Future of Scholarly Writing: Critical Interventions. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Clark, VèVè A., Ruth-Ellen B[oetcher] Joeres, and Madelon Sprengnether, editors. Revising the Word and the World: Essays in Feminist Literary Criticism. The U of Chicago P, 1993.

Gutzkow, Karl. Wally the Skeptic: Novel, with an Introduction and Notes by Ruth-Ellen B[oetcher] Joeres, Frankfurt/Main, Lang, 1974. German Studies in America 19.

Joeres, Ruth-Ellen Boetcher, editor. Die Anfänge der deutschen Frauenbewegung: Louise Otto-Peters. Frankfurt/Main, Fischer, 1983. Frau in der Gesellschaft.

—. Respectability and Deviance: Nineteenth-Century German Women Writers and the Ambiguity of Representation. The U of Chicago P, 1998. Women in Culture & Society.

Joeres, Ruth-Ellen Boetcher, and Marianne Burkhard, editors. Out of Line/Ausgefallen: The Paradox of Marginality in the Writings of Nineteenth-Century German Women. Rodopi, 1989. Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 28.

Joeres, Ruth-Ellen B[oetcher], and Annette Kuhn, editors. Frauenbilder und Frauenwirklichkeit. Interdisziplinäre Studien zur Frauengeschichte in Deutschland im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert. Düsseldorf, Schwann, 1985. Frauen in der Geschichte VI.

Joeres, Ruth-Ellen Boetcher, and Barbara Laslett, editors. The Second Signs Reader: Feminist Scholarship, 1983–1996. The U of Chicago P, 1996.

Joeres, Ruth-Ellen Boetcher, and Elizabeth Mittman, editors. The Politics of the Essay: Feminist Perspectives. Indiana UP, 1993.

Laslett, Barbara, Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres, Mary Jo Maynes, and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, editors. History and Theory: Feminist Research, Debates, Contestations. The U of Chicago P, 1996.

Maynes, M. J., and Ruth-Ellen B[oetcher] Joeres, editors. German Women in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Social and Literary History. Indiana UP, 1986.

The Personal Narrative Group, editor. Interpreting Women’s Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives. Indiana UP, 1989.

List of Selected Articles and Book Chapters by Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres

Compiled by Brian Vetruba (Oct. 4, 2019) and Helga Thorson (Feb. 19, 2021)

Sources: Academic Search Complete, BDSL, MLA International Bibliography, and WorldCat

Christian, Barbara, Heidi Hartmann, Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres, Barbara Laslett, and Anne Thorsen Truax. “Feminist Theory and Practice.” Signs, vol. 21, no. 4, 1996, pp. 811–13. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3175024.

Joeres, Ruth-Ellen Boetcher [or Joeres, Ruth-Ellen B.]. “1848 From a Distance: German Women Writers on the Revolution.” Modern Language Notes, vol. 97, no. 3, 1982, pp. 590–614. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2906214.

—. “The Ambiguous World of Hedwig Dohm.” Gestaltet und gestaltend. Frauen in der deutschen Literatur, edited by Marianne Burkhard, Rodopi, 1980, pp. 255–76. Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 10.

—. “Der ‘Circulus vitiosus’ der Rollenerwartungen und Selbstbilder. Deutsches Frauenschrifttum im 19. Jahrhundert.” Begegnung mit dem “Fremden”: Grenzen – Traditionen – Vergleiche. Akten des VIII. Internationalen Germanisten Kongresses, Tokyo 1990, edited by Eijiro Iwasaki, Munich, Iudicium-Verlag, 1991, pp. 237–46.

—. “‘Ein Dichter’: An Introduction to the World of Luise Büchner.” The German Quarterly, vol. 52, no. 1, 1979, pp. 32–49. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/405389.

—. “Editorial: On Writing Feminist Academic Prose.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol 17, no. 4, 1992, pp. 701–4. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3174531.

—. “Elusive Theory and Illusive Practice? Editing Signs.” PMLA, vol. 118, no. 2, 2003, pp. 318–20. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1261417.

—. “Feminism and the Word Wars.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 25, no. 4, 2000, pp. 1153–56. doi: 10.1086/495536.

—. “Found in the Details: Essaying the Particular.” The Future of Scholarly Writing: Critical Interventions, edited by Angelika Bammer and Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, pp. 111–25. doi: 10.1057/9781137505965_8.

—. “Frauenfrage und Belletristik: Zu Position deutscher sozialkritischer Schriftstellerinnen im 19. Jahrhundert.” Frauen sehen ihre Zeit: Katalog zur Literaturaustellung des Landesfrauenbeirates Rheinland-Pfalz. Mainz, 1984, pp. 21–40.

—. “Die ‘Fremdlinge der Menschheit’: Schicksale einer Seele als Frauenporträt.” Afterword. Schicksale einer Seele, by Hedwig Dohm, Munich, Frauenoffensive, 1988, pp. 321–32.

—. “The German Enlightenment (1720–1790).” The Cambridge History of German Literature, edited by Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly, Cambridge UP, 1997, pp. 147–201. doi: 10.1017/CHOL9780521434171.005.

—. “German Women in Text and Context of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Review Essay of Feminist Criticism.” Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur, vol. 11, 1986, pp. 232–63. doi: 10.1515/iasl.1986.11.1.272.

—. “Gisela von Arnim, 1827–1889: ‘Sie ist wie ein Felsen, und ich bin nur die Ranke darum’ oder Der Märchenaufstand.” Töchter berühmter Männer. Neun biographische Portraits, edited by Luise Pusch, Frankfurt/Main, Suhrkamp, 1994, pp. 208–38.

—. “The Gutzkow-Menzel Tracts: A Critical Response to a Novel and an Era.” Modern Language Notes, vol. 88, no. 5, 1973, pp. 988–1010. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2907691.

—. “Hereinspaziert! Hereinspaziert! Goethe and Hacks at the Jahrmarktsfest zu Plundersweilern.” The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory, vol. 51, no. 4, 1976, pp. 259–77. doi: 10.1080/19306962.1976.11787232.

—. “An Introduction to the Life and Times of Louise Otto.” Woman as Mediatrix: Essays on Nineteenth-Century European Women Writers, edited by Avriel H. Goldberger. Greenwood Press, 1987, pp. 111–21.

—. “‘Language is Also a Place of Struggle’: The Language of Feminism and the Language of American Germanistik.” Women in German Yearbook, vol. 8, 1992, pp. 247–57. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20688770.

—. “Louise Otto and Her Journals: A Chapter in Nineteenth-Century German Feminism.” Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur, vol. 4, 1979, pp. 100–29. doi: 10.1515/iasl.1979.4.1.100.

—. “Louise Otto-Peters.” Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 129: Nineteenth-Century German Writers, 1841–1900, edited by James Hardin and Siegfried Mews, Gale Research, 1993, pp. 295-301.

—. “Louise Otto-Peters: Ambivalenzen, Grenzen und Grenzüberschreitungen.” Louise Otto-Peters: Politische Denkerin und Wegbereiterin der deutschen Frauenbewegung, edited by Ilse Nagelschmidt and Johanna Ludwig, Dresden, Sächsische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, 1996, pp. 36–53.

—. “Luise Büchner, 1821–1877: ‘Wir sind mehr als wir scheinen.’” Schwestern berühmter Männer. Zwölf biographische Portraits, edited by Luise Pusch, Frankfurt/Main, Insel, 1985, pp. 289–321.

—. “Marie Luise Kaschnitz.” Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 69: Contemporary German Fiction Writers, First Series, edited by Wolfgang D. Elfe and James Hardin, Gale Research, 1988, pp. 174–82.

—. “Mensch oder Frau?: Marie Luise Kaschnitz’s ‘Orte’ als autobiographischer Beweis eines Frauenbewußtseins.” Der Deutschunterricht, special issue on Frauen in Sprache und Literatur, vol. 38, no. 3, 1986, pp. 77–85.

—. “‘Ein Nebel schließt uns ein.’ Social Comment in the Novels of German Women Writers, 1850–1870.” Women in German Yearbook, vol. 3, 1987, pp. 101–22. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20688689.

—. “Die nebensächlichen: Selbstbehauptung durch Protest in den Schriften deutscher Schriftstellerinnen im 19. Jahrhundert.” Frauensprache – Frauenliteratur? Für und Wider einer Psychoanalyse literarischer Werke, Akten des VII. Internationalen Germanisten-Kongresses, Göttingen 1985, vol. 6, edited by Inge Stephan and Carl Pietzcher, Tübingen, Niemeyer, 1986, pp. 68–72.

—. “The Paradox of a Feminist Academic Journal.” The Yale Journal of Criticism, vol. 10, no. 2, 1997, pp. 439–43. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/yale.1997.0021.

—. “The Passionate Essay: Radical Feminist Essayists.” The Politics of the Essay: Feminist Perspectives, edited by Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres and Elizabeth Mittman, Indiana UP, 1993, pp. 151–71.

—. “Scattered Thoughts on Current Feminist Literary Critical Work in Nineteenth-Century German Studies.” Women in German Yearbook: Feminist Studies in German Literature and Culture, vol. 17, 2001, pp. 225–44. doi: 10.1353/wgy.2001.0007.

—. “Self-Conscious Histories: The Biographies of German Women in the Nineteenth Century.” German Women in the Nineteenth Century: A Social History, edited by John C. Fout, Holmes & Meier, 1984, pp. 172–96.

—. “Sisterhood? Jede für sich? Gedanken über die heutige feministische Diskussion in den USA.” Feministische Studien, vol. 12, no. 1, 1994, pp. 6–16.

—. “Some Thoughts on the Tenuous and Precarious Relationship between Feminism and German Studies.” German Studies in the Post-Holocaust Age: The Politics of Memory, Identity, and Ethnicity, edited by Adrian Del Caro and Janet Ward, UP of Colorado, 2000, pp. 84–92.

—. “Spirit in Struggle: The Radical Vision of Louise Dittmar.” Out of Line/Ausgefallen: The Paradox of Marginality in the Writings of Nineteenth-Century German Women, edited by Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres and Marianne Burkhardt, Rodopi, 1989, pp. 279–301. Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 28.

—. “‘That girl is an entirely different character!’ Yes, but is she a feminist?: Observations on Sophie von La Roche’s Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim.” German Women in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Social and Literary History, edited by M. J. Maynes and Ruth-Ellen B[oetcher] Joeres, Indiana UP, 1986, pp. 137-56.

—. “The Triumph of the Woman: Johanna Kinkel’s Hans Ebeles in London (1860).” Euphorion: Zeitschrift für Literaturgeschichte, vol. 70, 1976, pp. 187–97.

—. “Von Frauenstudien zur Frauenforschung. Neuere Trends im akademischen Feminismus in den USA.” Feministische Studien, vol. 6, no. 1, 1988, p. 129–35.

—. “‘We are adjacent to human society’: German Women Writers, the Homosocial Experience, and a Challenge to the Public/Domestic Dichotomy.” Women in German Yearbook, vol. 10, 1994, pp. 39–57. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20688796.

—. “Die Zähmung der alten Frau: Hedwig Dohms Werde, die du bist.” Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung: Studien zur bezwungenen Weiblichkeit in der Literatur vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, edited by Sylvia Wallinger and Monika Jonas, Innsbruck, Institut für Germanistik, 1986, pp. 217–27.

—. “Zur Notwendigkeit einer Zusammenführung von Feminist Studies und Cultural Studies.” Mannigfaltigkeit der Richtungen, edited by Christa Grimm, Ilse Nagelschmidt, and Ludwig Stockinger, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2001, pp. 47–61.

Joeres, Ruth-Ellen Boetcher, and Marjorie Gelus. “Musing Together at Year Twenty.” Women in German Yearbook, vol. 20, 2004, pp. 215–31. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20688980.

Joeres, Ruth-Ellen Boetcher [or Joeres, Ruth-Ellen B.], and Barbara Laslett. “Looking Backward, Moving Forward.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 16, no. 3, 1991, pp. 433–40. doi: 10.1086/494677.

—. “On Being Labeled Politically (In)Correct.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 17, no. 4, 1992, pp. 779–805. doi: 10.1086/494764.

—. “Personal Narratives: A Selection of Recent Works.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 18, no. 2, 1993, pp. 389–91. doi: 10.1086/494798.

—. “Psychoanalysis and Feminism: Current Controversies.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 17, no. 2, 1992, pp. 435–66. doi: 10.1086/494736.

Joeres, Ruth-Ellen Boetcher, and Naomi Scheman. “Separatism Re-viewed: Introduction.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 19, no. 2, 1994, pp. 435–36. doi: 10.1086/494890.

McClain, William H., and Ruth-Ellen B[oetcher] Joeres. “Three Unpublished Letters from Robert Schweichel to Louise Otto.” Monatshefte, vol. 72, no. 1, 1980, pp. 39–50. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/30157021.

Ogunyemi, Chikwenye Okonjo, VèVè Clark, Ruth-Ellen B[oetcher] Joeres, and Madelon Sprengnether. “Womanism: The Dynamics of the Contemporary Black Female Novel in English.” Revising the Word and the World: Essays in Feminist Literary Criticism, edited by VèVè A. Clark, Ruth-Ellen B[oetcher] Joeres, and Madelon Sprengnether, The U of Chicago P, 1993, pp. 231–48.

Rich, Adrienne, VèVè Clark, Ruth-Ellen B[oetcher] Joeres, and Madelon Sprengnether. “An Interview with Audre Lorde.” Revising the Word and the World: Essays in Feminist Literary Criticism, edited by Vèvè A. Clark, Ruth-Ellen B[oetcher] Joeres, and Madelon Sprengnether, The U of Chicago P, 1993, pp. 13–36.

List of Dissertations Supervised by Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres

[arranged chronologically, starting with the most recent]

Shepela, Anja S. “Meine kühnsten Wünsche und Ideen”: Women, Space, Place, and Mobility in Late Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Germany. 2014. U of Minnesota, PhD dissertation.

Grewling, Nicole. Fighting the Two-Souled Warrior: German Colonial Fantasies of North America. 2007. U of Minnesota, PhD dissertation.

Guenther-Pal, Alison. Projecting Deviance/Seeing Queerly: Homosexual Representation and Queer Spectatorship in 1950s West Germany. 2007. U of Minnesota, PhD dissertation.

Moyrer, Monika A. Unheimisch in Deutschland: Fragmentation, Collage, and Performative Aesthetics in Herta Mueller’s Writings. 2007. U of Minnesota, PhD dissertation.

Raham, Rebecca A. Reading and Revising the Topography of German Culture: Christa Reinig on Gender and Sexuality. 2005. U of Minnesota, PhD dissertation.

Jennings, Lisa M. Sites Under Construction: Elusive Notions of Authenticity and Authorship in the Documentary Narratives of Erika Runge, Sara Lidman, Guenter Wallraff, and Goran Palm. 2004. U of Minnesota, PhD dissertation.

Muellner, Beth A. Techniques of Ambiguity: Mobility and the Visual in German Women’s Travel Texts. 2003. U of Minnesota, PhD dissertation.

Meyer, Sabine. Authority Matters: Community, Collective Voice, and the Narration of Deviance in Selected Multiple-Narrator Novels by African American Women. 2002. U of Minnesota, PhD dissertation.

Anderson, Martina S. Addressing Epistolary Subjects. 2000. U of Minnesota, PhD dissertation.

Abel, Brigetta M. Identities in Flux: The Exile Novels of Adrienne Thomas, Irmgard Keun, and Anna Seghers. 1999. U of Minnesota, PhD dissertation.

Sopcak, Lorna J. The Appropriation and Critique of the Romance Novel, Film, and Fashion in Irmgard Keun’s Weimar Prose: Humor, Intertextuality, and Popular Discourse. 1999. U of Minnesota, PhD dissertation.

Steinhagen, Virginia I. Educating Rita and Her “Sisters”: The Female “Bildungsroman” in the German Democratic Republic. 1996. U of Minnesota, PhD dissertation.

Thorson, Helga M. Re-Negotiating Borders: Responses of German and Austrian Middle-Class Women Writers to Medical Discourses on Sex, Gender, and Sexuality at the Turn of the Century. 1996. U of Minnesota, PhD dissertation.

Mueller, Isolde M. Norms vs. Narrative: The Impossibility of Representing Femininity in Late Eighteenth-Century German Literature. 1996. U of Minnesota, PhD dissertation.

Mittman, Elizabeth R. Encounters with the Institution: Woman and Wissenschaft in GDR Literature. 1992. U of Minnesota, PhD dissertation.

Jarvis, Shawn C. Literary Legerdemain and the “Märchen” Tradition of Nineteenth-Century German Women Writers. 1990. U of Minnesota, PhD dissertation.

Stuecher, Dorothea Diver. Writers in Exile: German Women Writers in America Between 1848 and 1900. 1981. U of Minnesota, PhD dissertation.