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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792197803321

Autore

Stephenson Jill.

Titolo

Women in Nazi society / / Jill Stephenson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-24740-8

0-203-10397-1

1-299-27954-6

1-136-24741-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Women's history ; ; v. 35

Disciplina

301.41/2/0943

Soggetti

Women - Germany - Social conditions

Germany Politics and government 1933-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published in 1975"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

WOMEN IN NAZISOCIETY; Copyright; WOMEN IN NAZISOCIETY; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Emancipation and Reaction after the Great War; 2. Marriage and Motherhood; 3. Birth Control and Unmarried Motherhood; 4. Women's Employment: Expansion and Opposition; 5. Women's Employment: Encouragement and Resistance; 6. Girls' Senior Schooling in the 1930s; 7. Nazi Policy towards Girl Students; 8. Progress, Prejudice and Purge in the Professions; 9. Coordination and Consolidation in the Professions; 10. Women and German Society in the 1930s; Bibliography

Glossary and List of AbbreviationsIndex

Sommario/riassunto

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