Stone's . . . arguments effortlessly weave together a vast amount of scholarship and theory on gender, memory, and literature. Her writing is clear, efficient, and elegant. In short, this outstanding book is a Corrective for the tendency to reduce the history of Nazi Germany to the binaries of male/oppressor-female/victim. It is a must-read for scholars of post-1933 Germany and for feminist scholars, regardless of their area of focus.

- Alexandra Merley Hill, MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW

Across the works of six female authors, the author shows how literature acts as an important site of cultural memory for the reproduction, contestation, and disruption of hegemonic models of gender and female subjectivity. In particular, Stone convincingly demonstrates how such consideration of gender complicates and enriches understanding of the development of German memory of the Nazi past. . . . Recommended.

CHOICE

While mostly indebted to historians, Katherine Stone's analysis draws from a wide range of disciplines -- sociology, psychology, women and gender studies, literary criticism, and others -- as her analytical instruments. Her book expands the existing research on women's culpability during the Third Reich into the realm of German literature.

- Marce Rotter, Monatshefte