Winning women's votes : propaganda and politics in Weimar Germany / Julia Sneeringer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sneeringer, Julia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Germany--History.

Women.

Women--Suffrage--Germany.

Women's rights--Germany.

Women's rights.

Germany--Politics and government--1918-1933.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (381 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In November 1918, German women gained the right to vote. Analyzing propaganda aimed at women voters, this study shows how various groups struggled to reconcile traditional assumption about women's interests with the changing face of the family and female economic activity.

Contents:

Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Political Mobilization of Women; 1. Onward, My Sisters; 2. Stabilization and Stability; 3. Culture versus Butter; 4. Saviors or Traitors; 5. Baby Machine or Herrin im Hause?; Conclusion: Women and the Language of Weimar Politics; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-256) and index.

ISBN:

9798890871237

9780807860519

0807860514

OCLC:

476237530