Title: Two cultures of rights: the quest for inclusion and participation in modern America and Germany
Abstract: List of contributors Introduction Manfred Berg and Martin H. Geyer Part I. Race, Immigration and Rights: 1. Asian Americans: rights denied and attained Roger Daniels 2. Individual right and collective interests: the NAACP and the American voting rights discourse Manfred Berg 3. Securing rights by action, securing rights by default: American Jews in historical perspective Hasia R. Diner 4. From civil rights to civic death dismantling rights in Nazi Germany Karl A. Schleunes 5. The rights of aliens in Germany and the United States Christian Joppke Part II. Civil and Social Rights: 6. 'The right to work is the right to live!': fair employment and the quest for social citizenship Eileen Boris 7. Social rights and citizenship during World War II Martin H. Geyer 8. Just desserts: virtue, agency and property in mid-twentieth-century Germany Michael L. Hughes 9. The political culture of rights: postwar Germany and the United States in comparative perspective Hugh Davis Graham 10. The emerging right to information Margaret S. Dalton Part III. Gender, Sex and Rights: 11. Feminist movements in the United States and Germany: a comparative perspective, 1848-1933 Ann Taylor Allen 12. Minorities, civil rights and political culture: gay and lesbian rights in Germany and the United States Michael Dreyer Index.
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-11-01
Language: en
Type: article
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