She co-wrote with Susanne Kord Contemporary Hollywood Masculinities: Gender, Genre, and Politics, which was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Titles of the Association of College and Research Libraries in 2012.
[9] The work examined the social conflicts between women being put to death for wearing men's clothing in battle and literary depictions of saintliness for the same actions, such as for Joan of Arc.
[6] It also explored the use of women's cross-dressing in literary works by both male and female authors, notably Goethe, as a means of analyzing gender, identity, and morality in German culture.
[10] According to Krimmer, the literary depictions of women who cross-dress generally take two forms, one in which the body plays no part in the revelation of the success of the disguise, and the other in which the biological sex is revealed.
[11] By analyzing the varied depictions, the culturally-constructed nature of gender is examined,[12] but according to scholar Edward T. Potter, Krimmer warns that cross-dressing was not a guarantee of liberation for women from culturally defined roles.
[17][18] Historian Christine Nugent, argued that Krimmer's work expelled the notions that all victims or all perpetrators were equal and also demonstrated that while all women suffered during war, they had some degree of agency.
[19] Scholars Sandra Alfers and Julia K. Gruber both point out that the volume adds to the complexity of women's experiences, showing that they were not mere bystanders and often were faced with dilemmas such as how to reconcile the meaning of caring with their nursing duties on behalf of the regime.
[23] Krimmer has also co-edited with Patricia Anne Simpson Realities and Fantasies of German Female Leadership: From Maria Antonia of Saxony to Angela Merkel, which explored whether or not women have historically had the actual power to lead or whether such authority was fictional.
[3][5][Note 1] Her book Contemporary Hollywood Masculinities: Gender, Genre, and Politics, co-written with Susanne Kord, was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Titles of the Association of College and Research Libraries in 2012.