Ingrid Sharp was
born on the Isle of Wight and educated in a number of
primary and secondary schools in England and Germany, St Edmund Hall,
Oxford (1979-83) and the
Language Teaching Centre, York. She taught English,
French and German at Wantage
(1984-87) before becoming Head of German at Queen Mary's
Sixth Form College, Basingstoke (1987-1989).
In 1989 she joined the Department of German at Leeds
where she was involved in a major revision of language
provision.RESEARCH
Her research interests
are women's history, especially the German women's
movement of the 19th century with a developing interest
in the rise of the New Woman in England and Germany.
MODULES TAUGHT
She teaches German
language at all levels post A-Level, German History post
1945 and courses on the German Women's Movement and the
GDR at undergraduate level, and has contributed sessions
on the New Woman to the MA in Anglo-German Cultural
Relations. Alongside her contribution to the revision of
language teaching, she has helped to develop the
monitoring and evaluation of the Year Abroad.
PUBLICATIONS
- ‘Berlin
and Gender Relations’ in Schoenfeld, C. and
Finnan,C. (eds) Female
Creativity in the Weimar Republic, Routledge 2004
- The Sexual Unification of Germany,
Journal of the History of Sexuality
(Forthcoming 2004)
- ‘Riding the Tiger:
Ambivalent Representations of the New Woman in the Periodicals of
the Weimar Republic’ in Margaret Beetham and Ann Heilmann (eds) New
Woman Hybridities. Femininity, Feminism, and International
Consumer Culture, 1880-1930 (Routledge 2003)
- Diseases of the Body Politic: Josephine
Butler and the Prostitution Campaigns
( Routledge 2002 - with Jane Jordan (eds.).
This is a five-volume set of Butler’s texts and
letters along with related material arranged
thematically. It includes material relating to her
continental campaigns. Click here
for details
- ‘German Women and the War’ for Lightning
Strikes Twice, a three volume
collection of articles on the First and Second World Wars (2001, commissioned by editors Peter
Liddle, Hugh Cecil and John Bourne.) Click here
for details.
- "At a Moral Crossroads: Vom
Leben Getötet and the Regulation of
Sexuality in the Weimar Republic." in Christiane
Schoenfeld (ed.) The Prostitute in
German Literature, Camden House
2000. Click here
for details.
- Women of Germany: Advanced by War?’ In
The Poppy and the Owl No. 25 May
1999 Special Armistice Anniversary Conference Issue,
Leeds pp. 39-47
- ‘The Double Moral Standard in England and
Germany in R.F.M. Byrn (ed.) Cousins
at One Remove: Anglo-German Studies 2 NUP, 1998
- With Ann Heilmann: ‘Making a Space for
Women: Student Conferences as an example of Feminist
Staff-student interaction in the University in Women’s
Studies International Forum Vol 20,
No 2 pp.301-320, 1997
- With D. Flinspach: ‘Women in Germany from
Division to Unification’ in Derek Lewis and John
R.P. McKenzie (eds) The New Germany.
Social, Political and Cultural Challenges of Unification
(Exeter: University of Exeter Press 1995) pp. 173-195
- ‘Male Privilege and Female Virtue:
Gendered Representations of the Two Germanies’ NGS
Volume 18 Number 2 1994/5 pp. 87 – 106
- To the Victor the Spoils: Sleeping
Beauty’s Sexual Awakening in Elizabeth Boa and Janet
Wharton (eds) Women and The Wende:
Social Effects and Cultural Reflections of the German
Unification Process Amsterdam 1994
pp. 177-188)
Book Reviews:
Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres, Deviance
and Respectability, University of
Chicago Press 1998. for Women’s
International Studies Forum
submitted August 1999.
Mary Fulbrook: German
National Identity after the Holocaust, Polity
Press 1999. For Journal of European
Area Studies, submitted September
1999.
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