Author: Eva Kolinsky Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 9780719041754 Category : Feminism Languages : de Pages : 330
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This study book, written in German for non-native speakers, traces the transformation of women's lives in Germany from the beginnings of the Women's Movement before World War I to the present day. It provides vocabulary and brief comments in English.
Author: Catherine Leota Dollard Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 9781845454807 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 292
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The alte Jungfer -- Sexology and the single woman -- Imagined demography -- The maternal spirit -- Moderate activism : Helene Lange and Alice Salomon -- Radical reform : Helene Stöcker, Ruth Bré, and Lily Braun -- Socialism and singleness : Clara Zetkin -- Spiritual salvation : Elisabeth Gnauck-Kühne.
Author: Jill Stephenson Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136247408 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 242
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This fascinating book examines the position of women under the Nazis. The National Socialist movement was essentially male-dominated, with a fixed conception of the role women should play in society; while man was the warrior and breadwinner, woman was to be the homemaker and childbearer. The Nazi obsession with questions of race led to their insisting that women should be encouraged by every means to bear children for Germany, since Germany’s declining birth rate in the 1920s was in stark contrast with the prolific rates among the 'inferior' peoples of eastern Europe, who were seen by the Nazis as Germany’s foes. Thus, women were to be relieved of the need to enter paid employment after marriage, while higher education, which could lead to ambitions for a professional career, was to be closed to girls, or, at best, available to an exceptional few. All Nazi policies concerning women ultimately stemmed from the Party’s view that the German birth rate must be dramatically raised.
Author: Lynn Abrams Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000159213 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 214
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This collection of essays examines the construction of gender norms in early modern and modern Germany.; The modes of reinforcement by the state, the church, the law and marriage, and the resistance to these norms by individuals, are central to each of the contributions.; It examines discourses of the body and sexuality and the relations between gender and power. Similarly, the usefulness of the "public/private paradigm" familiar to gender historians is further challenged.
Author: Erika Esau Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1527569551 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 274
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This book presents the life stories of three women of the German-speaking realm whose lives inspired the author directly: mathematician Maria Weber Steinberg (1919-2013); journalist Irmgard Rexroth-Kern (1907-1983); and Viennese art historian Fr. Dr. Anna von Spitzmüller (1903-2001). The lives of these three women serve as emotional mirrors to the cultural transformations and tumultuous history of the 20th century. Their stories tell of the hardships, struggles, and victories of intellectual European women in this era. Each woman was related to men who played a prominent role in European cultural life, men who received some recognition in history books. As intellectual professionals, these women, in contrast, received very few public accolades for their important achievements. Placing them in the cultural context of the times in Germany and Austria, the book highlights the traumatic choices imposed on ordinary people by political and social circumstances over which they had no control. Along with the women’s individual stories, the chapters focus on overarching themes, including educated women’s roles in European society, narratives of perseverance in confronting Nazism, and specific historical background describing the incidents affecting their life trajectories.
Author: Ulinka Rublack Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand ISBN: 0198208863 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 304
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A study of the crimes of women in early modern Germany, this text draws on court records to examine the lives of shrewd cutpurses, quarrelling artisan wives, and soldiers' concubines.
Author: John C. Fout Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers ISBN: Category : Women Languages : en Pages : 462
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This book is divided into two parts. The first focuses on middle and upper class German women and the second on working class women. The book addresses a range of important topics including growing up female in 19th century Germany, the impact of agrarian change on women's work and child care, female political opposition in pre-1849 Germany, women's role in working class families in the 1890s, women's education and reading habits, and Jewish women and assimilation.
Author: Rachel Century Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137548932 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 275
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This book compares female administrators who specifically chose to serve the Nazi cause in voluntary roles with those who took on such work as a progression of established careers. Under the Nazi regime, secretaries, SS-Helferinnen (female auxiliaries for the SS) and Nachrichtenhelferinnen des Heeres (female auxiliaries for the army) held similar jobs: taking dictation, answering telephones, sending telegrams. Yet their backgrounds and degree of commitment to Nazi ideology differed markedly. The author explores their motivations and what they knew about the true nature of their work. These women had access to information about the administration of the Holocaust and are a relatively untapped resource. Their recollections shed light on the lives, love lives, and work of their superiors, and the tasks that contributed to the displacement, deportation and death of millions. The question of how gender intersected with Nazism, repression, atrocity and genocide forms the conceptual thread of this book.
Author: Claudia Siebrecht Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199656681 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 209
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An examination of German women's art produced during the First World War that places the artists' visual responses within the civilian war experience. Traces the thematic evolution of women's art from visual expressions of support for the national war effort to more nuanced and distraught representations of grief over wartime death.
Author: Ann Allen Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1137169583 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 234
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Women's lives changed more in the 20th century than in any previous century. It was a period of transformation, not only of the political realm, but also the household, family and workplace. Ranging widely over Europe, this fascinating account is one of the first comprehensive surveys of its kind.
Author: Eva Kolinsky
Author: Catherine Leota Dollard
Author: Jill Stephenson
Author: Lynn Abrams
Author: Erika Esau
Author: Ulinka Rublack
Author: John C. Fout
Author: Rachel Century
Author: Claudia Siebrecht
Author: Ann Allen