Gender Relations in German History: Power, Agency and Experience from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century

ISBN-13: 9781138167391 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 272 str.

Lynn Abrams; Elizabeth Harvey

Opis

This collection of new research explores, from a variety of perspectives, the construction of gender norms in early modern and modern Germany. Abrams and Harvey are both experts in this field.

Spis treści

Contents -- Preface -- Notes on contributors -- 1 Introduction: gender and gender relations in German history /Lynn Abrams and Elizabeth Harvey -- 2 Gender norms and their enforcement in early modern Germany /Heide Wunder -- 3 The public body: policing abortion in early modern Germany /Ulinka Rublack -- 4 Religious dissent and the roots of German feminism /Dagmar Herzog -- 5 Companionship and conflict: the negotiation of marriage relations in the nineteenth century /Lynn Abrams -- 6 The sick warrior's sister: nursing during the First World War /Regina Schulte -- 7 Wise women, wise men and abortion in the Weimar Republic: gender, class and medicine /Cornelie Usborne -- 8 National Socialist policies towards female homosexuality /Claudia Schoppmann -- 9 Driving the message home: Nazi propaganda in the private sphere /Kate Lacey -- 10 Labours of consumption: gendered consumers in post-war East and West German reconstruction /Katherine Pence -- Bibliography -- Index.

O autorze

Lynn Abrams is a lecturer in history at the University of Glasgow. Elizabeth Harvey is a lecturer in history at the University of Liverpool.