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12 of the Best Books and Articles on: Women in Germany

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German Women in the Nineteenth Century: A Social History » Read Now
by John C. Fout. 439 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...though still sketchy picture of women in Germany in the nineteenth century...synthesis. Scholarly studies on women in Germany have appeared in the past at...working life of...
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A German Women's Movement: Class and Gender in Hanover, 1880-1933 » Read Now
by Nancy R. Reagin. 322 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Stadtbibliothek; and the women who agreed...and my life in Germany more pleasant...differences. 2 In Germany, gender difference...developed by the women who...
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The Wall in My Backyard: East German Women in Transition » Read Now
by Dinah Dodds, Pam Allen-Thompson. 178 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...women possessed. The women interviewed, and many like them in the new Germany, are successfully...Kolinsky Eva. Women in Contemporary Germany. Life, Work, and...the...
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At the Very Least She Pays the Rent: Women and German Industrialization, 1871-1914 » Read Now
by Barbara Franzoi. 210 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...dimension of scholarship on women in Germany in the nineteenth century concerns...present economic conditions of women in Germany in perspective, two studies...the second...
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Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out » Read Now
by Anne V. Adams, Katharina Oguntoye, May Opitz, Dagmar Schultz. 239 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany » Read Now
by Marion A. Kaplan. 351 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

A social history of Jewish women in Imperial Germany, this study synthesizes German, women's, and Jewish history. The book explores the private--familial and religious--lives of the German-Jewish bourgeoisie and the public roles of Jewish women in the university, paid employment and social service...
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A social history of Jewish women in Imperial Germany, this study synthesizes German, women's, and Jewish history. The book explores the private--familial and religious--lives of the German-Jewish bourgeoisie and the public roles of Jewish women in the university, paid employment and social service. It analyzes the changing roles of Jewish women as members of an economically mobile, but socially spurned minority. The author emphasizes the crucial role women played in creating the Jewish middle class, as well as their dual role within the Jewish family and community as powerful agents of class formation and acculturation and determined upholders of tradition.
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Women under the Third Reich: A Biographical Dictionary » Read Now
by Shaaron Cosner. 203 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Traditionally, the story of the Third Reich has been a story of men, yet women participated in all aspects of the war and on both sides of the Nazi flag. This dictionary, with entries on more than 100 women, shows the diversity of their roles in this turbulent and disturbing period. It includes...
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Traditionally, the story of the Third Reich has been a story of men, yet women participated in all aspects of the war and on both sides of the Nazi flag. This dictionary, with entries on more than 100 women, shows the diversity of their roles in this turbulent and disturbing period. It includes entries on resistance fighters, nurses, entertainers, writers, filmmakers, spies, and prisoners with exceptional spirit and courage. The women represented here came from all the countries involved with the Third Reich and from many different occupations before their involvement in the war--housewives, secretaries, singers, film stars, pilots, and athletes. This volume reveals the women's perspective on the history of the Third Reich.
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Mothers of the Nation: Right-Wing Women in Weimar Germany » Read Now
by Raffael Scheck. 234 pgs.

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What role did right-wing women play in the Nazi rise to power?Mothers of the Nation analyzes the work of women in the German Peoples Party and the German National Peoples Party - parties that covered the range from the moderate to the radical right. Looking at politics on both the local and national...
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What role did right-wing women play in the Nazi rise to power?Mothers of the Nation analyzes the work of women in the German Peoples Party and the German National Peoples Party - parties that covered the range from the moderate to the radical right. Looking at politics on both the local and national level, the author discusses issues ranging from social welfare to foreign policy. He shows that right-wing women, in keeping with the tradition of the German bourgeois womens movement, refused to stand up primarily for womens interests and instead invoked the Volksgemeinschaft (community of the people), a vision of harmony and cooperation of the groups involved in production.These right-wing campaigners believed that German women should use their newly won political rights to strengthen the Volksgemeinschaft by reconciling the divided nation and by infusing it with a higher morality. This stance proved to be both a liability and an asset. The emphasis on the Volksgemeinschaft made it difficult for female conservatives to fight for specific womens rights. Yet it also allowed them to paste over the conflicts between interest groups that tore apart Germanys bourgeois parties prior to 1933 and that divided politically active women as well. The ways in which women sought to contain the fragmentation that ultimately rendered their parties defenceless against the Nazis sheds new light on Weimar politics.Bringing the controversial story of right-wing women to life, this book offers a compelling account of gender and politics during a crucial period in German history.
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Women against Hitler: Christian Resistance in the Third Reich » Read Now
by Theodore N. Thomas. 170 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

Adolf Hitler declared war on Christianity when he silenced the Catholic Church with a diplomatic treaty and arranged for a Nazi Army chaplain to become supreme bishop over the Protestants of Germany. The "Confessing Church" resisted. Pastors were muzzled, put under house arrest, jailed, and held for...
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Adolf Hitler declared war on Christianity when he silenced the Catholic Church with a diplomatic treaty and arranged for a Nazi Army chaplain to become supreme bishop over the Protestants of Germany. The "Confessing Church" resisted. Pastors were muzzled, put under house arrest, jailed, and held for years in concentration camps. Thousands were drafted and sent to the war to die, while others were murdered outright. The result was a lack of "man"-power. Women stepped in. Pastors' wives replaced their absent husbands in the pulpits, and Theologinnen--theologically trained women--preached and assumed administration of the orphaned parishes. Women fought to save their civil rights, and freedoms of speech, assembly, press, and religion. Some went to jail. Some died. A social and theological revolution thus erupted when women stood by the side of men in leadership positions in the church.
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Productive Men, Reproductive Women: The Agrarian Household and the Emergence of Separate Spheres during the German Enlightenment » Read Now
by Marion W. Gray. 370 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

Marion W. Gray is Professor of History and Women's Studies at Kansas State University.
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Women and the New German Cinema » Read Now
by Julia Knight. 222 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...of silent cinema women in Germany -- despite the undoubted...the most prominent women filmmakers presently at work in Germany 31 and notes their...of course unique to...
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Nazi Chic? Fashioning Women in the Third Reich » Read Now
by Irene Guenther. 499 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

This is the first book in English to deal comprehensively with German fashion from World War I through to the end of the Third Reich. It explores the failed attempt by the Nazi state to construct a female image that would mirror official gender policies, inculcate feelings of national pride, promote...
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This is the first book in English to deal comprehensively with German fashion from World War I through to the end of the Third Reich. It explores the failed attempt by the Nazi state to construct a female image that would mirror official gender policies, inculcate feelings of national pride, promote a German victory on the fashion runways of Europe and support a Nazi-controlled European fashion industry. Not only was fashion one of the countrys largest industries throughout the interwar period, but German women ranked among the most elegantly dressed in all of Europe. While exploding the cultural stereotype of the German woman as either a Brunhilde in uniform or a chubby farmers wife, the author reveals the often heated debates surrounding the issue of female image and clothing, as well as the ambiguous and contradictory relationship between official Nazi propaganda and the reality of womens daily lives during this crucial period in German history. Because Hitler never took a firm public stance on fashion, an investigation of fashion policy reveals ambivalent posturing, competing factions and conflicting laws in what was clearly not a monolithic National Socialist state. Drawing on previously neglected primary sources, Guenther unearths new material to detailthe inner workings of a government-supported fashion institute and an organization established to help aryanize the German fashion world.How did the few with power maintain style and elegance? How did the majority experience the increased standardization of clothing characteristic of the Nazi years? How did women deal with the severe clothing restrictions brought about by Nazi policies and the exigencies of war? These questions and many others, including the role of anti-Semitism, aryanization and the hypocrisy of Nazi policies, are all thoroughly examined in this pathbreaking book.
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