Prof. Dr. Cornelie Usborne

Professorin emerita, Roehampton University

Humanities

Roehampton University

Roehampton Lane

GB

SW15 5PU London

C.Usborne@roehampton.ac.uk

07979336401

Forschung und Projekte

Derzeitige Position(en)

Senior Fellow am Institute of Historical Research, London

Aktuelle(s) Projekt(e)

Eine Monographie: Imagined Pleasure, Ambivalent Practice. A cultural history of women’s sexuality in Weimar and Nazi Germany

Frühere Position(en)

Professor of History, Roehampton University
Senior Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, London

Veröffentlichungen

Monographien (und Dissertation)

Cultures of Abortion in Weimar Germany (London/New York, 2007; paperback edition, 2011).

Frauenkörper – Volkskörper. Geburtenkontrolle und Bevölkerungspolitik in der Weimarer Republik (Münster, 1994).

The Politics of the Body in Weimar Germany. Women's reproductive rights and duties (London/NewYork, 1992).

Artikel

“Female Sexual Desire and Male Honor: German Women’s Illicit Love Affairs with Prisoners of War during the Second World War”, special issue of the Journal of the History of Sexuality on `Transgressive Sex, Love and Violence during the Second World War: Case Studies from Britain and Germany’, vol. 26, no 3, September 2017, 454-488.

(with Jonathan Barry and Owen Davies), Preface of Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, VII – XIII.

`Bio-Politics and Gender in the First World War and Weimar Germany’, in Gabriele Metzler/Dirk Schumann eds., Geschlechter(un)ordnung und Politik in der Weimarer Republik (Bonn: Dietz, 2016), 109-134.

`Abtreibung in der Weimarer Republik. Weibliche Fordrungen und Erfahrungen’, in Lutz Niethammer and Silke Satjukow eds., “Wenn die Chemie stimmt….” Gender Relations and Birth Control in the Age of the “Pill” (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2016), 96-120.

(with Beat Kümin) `At Home and in the Workplace: A historical introduction to the “spatial turn”’, History & Theory, 52, (October 2013), 305-318.

`Social Body, Racial Body, Woman’s Body. Discourses, Policies, Practices from Wilhelmine to Nazi Germany, 1912-1945’, Historical Social Research, special issue on `Fertility’ (2011)

(with C. Behr, S. Wieber), `The Challenge of the Image’, Cultural and Social History, vol 7, issue 4, (December 2010), 425-434.

(with), `Medicine, Mediation and Meaning’, in Cultural Approaches to the History of Medicine, ed. Willem de Blécourt, Cornelie Usborne (Palgrave, 2004), 1-10.

(with Margaret L. Arnot), `Why gender and crime? Aspects of an international debate’, Gender & Crime in Modern Europe (UCL Press, 1999), 1-43.

(with Willem de Blécourt), `Situating “Alternative Medicine” in the Modern Period’, introduction, special issue on `Alternative Medicine in Europe since 1800’, Medical History, vol 43, no 3 (July 1999), 283-285.

`Rhetoric and Resistance: Rationalization of Reproduction in Weimar Germany’, special issue on `Gender and Rationalization in Comparative Historical Perspective – Germany and the United States’, Social Politics, vol 4, no 1 (Spring 1997), 65-89.

Herausgeberschaften und Editionen

Editor (with Jonathan Barry and Owen Davies), Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present, ( London/New York, 2017).

Co-editor (with Beat Kümin), Special Forum on `At home and in the workplace: domestic and occupational space in Western Europe since the middle ages’, History & Theory, 52, (October 2013).

Co-editor (with Charlotte Behr and Sabine Wieber), special issue on ‘Picturing the Past’, Cultural and Social History, vol 7, issue 4, (December 2010).

Co-editor (with Willem de Blécourt), Cultural Approaches to the History of Medicine (London/New York, 2004).

Co-editor (with Margaret L. Arnot), Gender & Crime in Modern Europe (London, 1999).

Co-editor (with Willem de Blécourt), special issue on `Alternative Medicine in Europe since 1800’, Medical History, vol 43, no 3 (July 1999).