Women in the Third Reich / Matthew Stibbe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stibbe, Matthew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Germany--History--20th century.

Women.

Germany.

History.

National socialism.

Germany--History--1933-1945.

Physical Description:

x, 198 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Arnold ; New York : Co-published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press, 2003.

Summary:

The importance of gender as a category of analysis is now very widely accepted, but there has been a slowness to bring it to bear in general interpretative surveys of Nazi Germany. This new study aims to remedy the ommission, to reintroduce as actors on the historical stage that half of the German population who were female. This volume asks why such a sizeable proportion was ready to rally around a movement both blatantly anti-feminist and determined to exclude women from public life; how ordinary Germans translated Nazi beliefs into action; and what, other than gender, influenced their political choices between 1933 and 1945.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-192) and index.

ISBN:

0340761059

0340761040

OCLC:

52358281