The Nazi organisation of women / Jill Stephenson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stephenson, Jill, author.

Series:

Routledge library editions. Women's history.

Routledge Library Editions: Women's History ; Volume 34

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reichsfrauenführung (Germany).

Women--Germany--Societies and clubs.

Women.

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

Germany--History--1933-1945.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Nazi's were implacably opposed to feminism and women's independence. Rosa Luxemburg became a symbol of all that most horrified them in German society, in particular because of her involvement in active politics. Nazi ideology saw women in the activist role of 'wives, mothers and home-makers', and their task was to support their fighting menfolk by providing food and making and mending uniforms and flags.The miscellany of women's organisations was dissolved and reunified by Gregor Strasser in 1931, and in 1934 Gertrud Scholtz-Klink became an overall leader of the Nazi Women's Grou

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Evolution and Creation; Nazi Women's Work Begins; Strasser and the Crisis in the DFO; The Founding of the NS-Frauenschaft; 2. Centralisation and Conflicts of Interest; Centripetal Forces and Local Initiatives; Personality Problems; The End of the NSF's 'Girls' Groups'; 3. Stabilising the NSF with Gertrud Scholtz-Klink; The Leadership Crisis in the NSF; Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, National Women's Leader; 4. The Women's Organisations in the Third Reich; Co-ordination and the Deutsches Frauenwerk

The NS-Frauenschaft and 'Political Education'The DFW and the 'Women's Work of the Nation'; 5. Nazi Women at War; Limited Effort on the Home Front; NSF/DFW Work among the Volksdeutsche; Nazi Women on the Defensive; Postscript; Appendix 1: The Gaus of the NSDAP, 1938; Appendix 2: The 1937 Organisation Plan of the Reichsfrauenfuhrung; Appendix 3: The 1941 Organisation Plan of the Reichsfrauenfuhrung; Appendix 4: The Sub-divisions of the Service Sections of the Reichsfrauenfuhrung, 1941; Glossary and List of Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

"First published in 1981"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed May 17, 2013).

ISBN:

1-136-24747-5

0-203-10399-8

1-136-24748-3

9780203103999

OCLC:

842885713