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Record Nr.

UNISA996248312203316

Autore

Dollard Catherine Leota

Titolo

The surplus woman : unmarried in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918 / / Catherine L. Dollard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berghahn Books, 2009

New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn Books, , 2009

ISBN

1-78533-662-2

1-282-62805-4

9786612628054

1-84545-952-0

Edizione

[New York ; Oxford, England : Berghahn Books, 2009.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Collana

Monographs in German History ; ; Volume 30

Disciplina

305.40943

Soggetti

Women - Germany - History

Single women - Germany - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

The first German women's movement embraced the belief in a demographic surplus of unwed women, known as the Frauenüberschuß, as a central leitmotif in the campaign for reform. Proponents of the female surplus held that the advances of industry and urbanization had upset traditional marriage patterns and left too many bourgeois women without a husband. This book explores the ways in which the realms of literature, sexology, demography, socialism, and female activism addressed the perceived plight of unwed women. Case studies of reformers, including Lily Braun, Ruth Brè, , Elisabeth Gnauck-Kühne