Women in Nazi society / / Jill Stephenson

• Autore: Stephenson Jill.
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 301.41/2/0943
• Soggetto topico: Women - Germany - Social conditions
• Soggetto geografico: Germany Politics and government 1933-1945
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Women in Nazi society
• ISBN: 1-136-24740-8; 0-203-10397-1; 1-299-27954-6; 1-136-24741-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822073903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge library editions. . -Women's history.