1st Edition

Women in Nazi Society

By Jill Stephenson Copyright 1975
240 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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. Girl’s 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

Biography

Stephenson, Jill