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Stanford University: Stanford, CA, US

1977-01-01 to present | Senior Scholar/independent scholar (Clayman Institute for Gender Research)
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Karen Offen

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Stanford University: Stanford, CA, US

1962-09-01 to 1971-06-01 | Ph.D. (History)
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Karen Offen

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Central European University: Budapest, Europe, HU

1999-09 to 1999-12 | Invited Faculty member (Gender Studies)
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Funding (3)

Considerably more research on the woman question in France

1995 to present | Award
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (New York, US)
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Karen Offen

More research on the woman question in France

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Rockefeller Foundation (New York, New York, US)
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Karen Offen

Research on the woman question in France

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National Endowment for the Humanities (Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, US)
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Karen Offen

Works (50)

Le Vote des Françaises: cent ans de débats 1848–1944ANNE-SARAH BOUGLÉ-MOALIC‘Féministe d'abord’: Cécile Brunschvicg (1877–1946)CÉCILE FORMAGLIO

Women's History Review
2015-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2015.1043782
Contributors: Karen Offen
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The Tensions within the Early Twentieth-Century Bulgarian Women's Movement

Aspasia
2015-01-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3167/asp.2015.090107
Contributors: Krassimira Daskalova; Karen Offen
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The Past and Present of European Women’s and Gender History: A Transatlantic Conversation

Journal of Women's History
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2013.0053
Contributors: Ida Blom; Mineke Bosch; Antoinette Burton; Anna Clark; Karen Hagemann; Laura E. Nym Mayhall; Karen Offen; Mary Louise Roberts; Birgitte Søland; Mary Jo Maynes
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Karen Offen Hg., Globalizing Feminisms, 1789–1945

L'Homme
2012-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.7767/lhomme.2012.23.2.131
Contributors: Regina Wecker
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Founding the International Federation for Research in Women's History, 1987–2007

Women's History Review
2011-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2011.599602
Contributors: Karen Offen
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Is the ‘Woman Question’ Really the ‘Man Problem’?

Confronting Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle France
2010 | Other
DOI: 10.1057/9780230246843_3
Contributors: Karen Offen
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Surveying European Women's History since the Millenium: A Comparative Review

Journal of Women's History
2010 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1353/jowh.0.0131
Contributors: Karen Offen
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Parallels and Intersections: the International Federation for Research in Women’s History in Comparative Historical Perspective: a plenary address presented at the twentieth anniversary conference, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 2007

Women's History Review
2009-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/09612020902944379
Contributors: Karen Offen
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Madame Ghénia Avril de Sainte‐Croix, the Josephine Butler of France

Women's History Review
2008-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/09612020701707266
Contributors: Karen Offen
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The International Museum of Women

Museum International
2007-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0033.2007.00619.x
Contributors: Karen Offen; Elizabeth L. Colton
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How (and Why) the Analogy of Marriage with Slavery Provided the Springboard for Women's Rights Demands in France, 1640–1848

Women's Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation
2007-05 | Other
DOI: 10.12987/yale/9780300115932.003.0004
Contributors: Karen Offen
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Sarah Knott and Barbara Taylor, editors. Women, Gender and Enlightenment .:Women, Gender and Enlightenment

AM HIST REV
2006 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1086/ahr.111.5.1584a
Contributors: Karen Offen
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Le gender est-il une invention américaine ?*

clio
2006-11-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.4000/clio.4702
Contributors: Karen Offen
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Women and the Second World War in France, 1939–1948: Choices and Constraints . By Hanna  Diamond. Women and Men in History. Edited by Patricia  Skinner, Pamela  Sharpe, and Penny  Summerfield. Harlow: Longman, 1999. Pp. xiv+231. £45.00 (cloth); £14.99 (paper). French Women in Politics: Writing Power, Paternal Legitimization, and Maternal Legacies . By Raylene L.  Ramsay. New York: Berghahn Books, 2003. Pp. xviii+318. $75.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper).

The Journal of Modern History
2005-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1086/431849
Contributors: Karen Offen
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Reviews of Books:Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination Barbara Taylor

AM HIST REV
2004-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1086/530885
Contributors: Karen Offen
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Madame Rose: A Life of Ernestine L. Rose as told to Jenny P. d'Hericourt

Journal of Women's History
2003 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2003.0021
Contributors: Madame d' Hericourt; Paula B. (Paula Brown) Doress-Worters; Jane Pincus; Mei-Mei Akwai Ellerman; Ingrid Kisliuk; Erica Harth; Allen J. Worters; Karen M. Offen
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European Feminisms, 1700–1950: A Political History . By Karen Offen. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. xvii+554. $19.95.

The Journal of Modern History
2003-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1086/377755
Contributors: Rachel G. Fuchs
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Geneviève FRAISSE, Les Femmes et leur histoire, Paris, Gallimard, Collection Folio histoire, 1998, 614 p. ; Michelle PERROT, Les Femmes ou les silences de l'Histoire, Paris, Flammarion, 1998, 493 p.

clio
2003-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.4000/clio.199
Contributors: Karen Offen
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Women's Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century World: States, Gender, and Historiographical Strategies in Comparative Perspective

Journal of Women's History
2002 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2002.0010
Contributors: Karen M. Offen
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Poignant Relations: Three Modern French Women . By James Smith Allen. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii+270. $42.50.

The Journal of Modern History
2002-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1086/343429
Contributors: Karen Offen
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Paul Lafargue and the Flowering of French Socialism, 1882–1911.Derfler, Leslie. Paul Lafargue and the Flowering of French Socialism, 1882–1911. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. 384. $49.50.

Contemporary French Civilization
2002-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3828/cfc.2002.26.1.014
Contributors: Karen Offen
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Women's Suffrage

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
2001 | Other
DOI: 10.1016/b0-08-043076-7/04011-0
Contributors: K. Offen
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Women’s Rights or Human Rights? International Feminism between the Wars

Women's Rights and Human Rights
2001 | Other
DOI: 10.1057/9780333977644_16
Contributors: Karen Offen
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A Historical Memory for Women: The Gosteli Archive Documents More than One Hundred Years of Swiss Women's History

Journal of Women's History
2000 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2000.0028
Contributors: Claudia Wirz; Kornelia Freitag; Karen M Offen
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Reign of Virtue: Mobilizing Gender in Vichy France

The American Historical Review
2000-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2307/2651568
Contributors: Karen Offen; Miranda Pollard
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Weighing Women's Words

The European Legacy
2000-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/713665527
Contributors: Karen Offen
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Forgotten Forerunners

The Women's Review of Books
2000-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2307/4023331
Contributors: Karen M. Offen
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Women And The Question of ?Universal? Suffrage in 1848: A Transatlantic Comparison of Suffragist Rhetoric

NWSA Journal
1999-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2979/nws.1999.11.1.150
Contributors: Karen Offen
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Book reviews

The European Legacy
1998-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/10848779808579883
Contributors: Victor N. Constantinescu; Robert Mayhew; Karen Offen; Gloria Mound; Ernest Krausz; Ludwig Finscher; Jean‐Philippe Mathy; Bruno Ferraro; Bent Greve; Jan Bednarich et al.
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Gender and Class in Modern Europe

The American Historical Review
1998-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2307/2650818
Contributors: Karen Offen; Laura L. Frader; Sonya O. Rose
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"What! Such Things Have Happened and No Women Were Taught about Them": A Nineteenth-Century French Woman's View of the Importance of Women's History

Journal of Women's History
1997 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2010.0557
Contributors: Karen Offen
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A Comparative European Perspective: Comment on "Confronting Continuity"

Journal of Women's History
1997 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2010.0519
Contributors: Karen Offen
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Peasant and French: Cultural Contact in Rural France during the Nineteenth Century

Journal of Interdisciplinary History
1997 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2307/206557
Contributors: Karen Offen; James R. Lehning
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Women's History as French History

Journal of Women's History
1996 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2010.0412
Contributors: Karen Offen
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Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State: Britain and France, 1914–1945Pedersen, Susan. Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State: Britain and France, 1914–1945 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xiv + 478.

Contemporary French Civilization
1996-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3828/cfc.1996.20.1.022
Contributors: Karen Offen; Margaret Collins Weitz
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Sisters of the Brush: Women's Artistic Culture in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris.

The American Historical Review
1995 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2307/2169967
Contributors: Karen Offen; Tamar Garb
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Women in the Western World

Journal of Women's History
1995 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2010.0359
Contributors: Karen Offen
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We Will Wait: Wives of French Prisoners of War, 1940-1945.

The American Historical Review
1993-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2307/2166907
Contributors: Karen Offen; Sarah Fishman
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Egalité des hommes et des femmes, 1622

History of European Ideas
1993-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/0191-6599(93)90297-4
Contributors: Karen Offen
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Eve dans l'humanité, 1868

History of European Ideas
1993-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/0191-6599(93)90299-6
Contributors: Karen Offen
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Opinions de femmes de la veille au lendemain de la Révolution Française

History of European Ideas
1993-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/0191-6599(93)90298-5
Contributors: Karen Offen
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Sur la noblesse et l'excellence du sexe féminin. de sa prééminence sur l'autre sexe 1537

History of European Ideas
1993-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/0191-6599(93)90296-3
Contributors: Karen Offen
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Murders and Madness: Medicine, Law, and Society in the Fin de Siècle Ruth Harris

The Journal of Modern History
1992-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1086/244533
Contributors: Karen Offen
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Writing Women’s History

1991 | Book
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-21512-6
Contributors: Karen Offen; Ruth Roach Pierson; Jane Rendall
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A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present Bonnie S. Anderson Judith P. Zinsser

The Journal of Modern History
1991-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1086/244263
Contributors: Karen Offen
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L'Egalite en Marche: Le Feminisme sous la Troisieme Republique.

The American Historical Review
1991-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2307/2164100
Contributors: Karen Offen; Laurence Klejman; Florence Rochefort; Michelle Perrot
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The New Sexual Politics of French Revolutionary Historiography

French Historical Studies
1990 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2307/286328
Contributors: Karen Offen
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Women's Memory, Women's History, Women's Political Action: The French Revolution in Retrospect, 1789-1889-1989

Journal of Women's History
1990 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2010.0043
Contributors: Karen Offen
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Gender and the Politics of History Joan Wallach Scott

The Journal of Modern History
1990-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1086/600494
Contributors: Karen Offen
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3. National or International? How and Why the Napoleonic Code Drove Married Women’s Legal Rights onto the Agenda of the International Council of Women and the League of Nations: An Overview

Family Law in Early Women's Rights Debates
Other
DOI: 10.7788/boehlau.9783412211851.42
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