Ann Taylor Allen is a professor of German history at the University of Louisville

University of Louisville

The University of Louisville is a public university in Louisville, Kentucky. When founded in 1798, it was the first city-owned public university in the United States and one of the first universities chartered west of the Allegheny Mountains. The university is mandated by the Kentucky General...

. Allen is the author of four books and more than twenty articles/reviews in peer-reviewed journals. She has a BA from Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr College is a women's liberal arts college located in Bryn Mawr, a community in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, ten miles west of Philadelphia. The name "Bryn Mawr" means "big hill" in Welsh....

 (1965, Magna cum Laude), studied at the University of Hamburg

University of Hamburg

The University of Hamburg is a university in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded on 28 March 1919 by Wilhelm Stern and others. It grew out of the previous Allgemeines Vorlesungswesen and the Kolonialinstitut as well as the Akademisches Gymnasium. There are around 38,000 students as of the start of...

, Germany with a Fulbright Fellowship, received an MA in 1967 from Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

 and earned a PhD from Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

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.

External links

• Ann Taylor Allen Publications