Ann Taylor Allen

Ann Taylor Allen is a professor of German history at the University of Louisville. Allen is the author of five books and more than twenty articles/reviews in peer-reviewed journals. She has a BA from Bryn Mawr College (1965, Magna cum laude), studied at the University of Hamburg, Germany with a Fulbright Fellowship, received an MA in 1967 from Harvard University and earned a PhD from Columbia University in 1974.

Books Satire and Society in Wilhelmine Germany: Simplicissimus and Kladderadatsch, 1890–1914. Lexington, Kentucky (University Press of Kentucky), 1984. Feminism and Motherhood in Germany, 1800–1914. New Brunswick, NJ (Rutgers University Press), 1991. Feminismus und Mütterlichkeit in Deutschland, 1800–1914. Weinheim (Beltz Verlag), 2000. German version of Feminism and Motherhood, translated by Regine Othmer. Feminism and Motherhood in Western Europe, 1890–1970: The Maternal Dilemma. New York (Palgrave-Macmillan), 2005. Women in Twentieth-Century Europe, Houndmills, Basingstoke (Palgrave-Macmillan), 2008. The Transatlantic Kindergarten: Education and Women's Movements in Germany and the United States. New York (Oxford University Press), 2017