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 means to bear children for Germany, since Germany s declining birth rate in the 1920s was in stark contrast with the prolific rates among the 'inferior' peoples of eastern Europe, who were seen by the...
This fascinating book examines the position of women under the Nazis. The National Socialist movement was essentially male-dominated, with a fixed ...
There is still much uncertainty about the role of nineteenth-century British women in social and political protest. As politics was a man s world virtually all official accounts and statistics of popular protest deal only with the men involved. It is well known that women participated in food riots and mobilised support for Chartism, and as the dramatic changes in the economy during this period greatly increased the demand for women s labour, this stimulated their widespread involvement in political and social agitation, particularly the parliamentary reform movement of 1819.
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There is still much uncertainty about the role of nineteenth-century British women in social and political protest. As politics was a man s world v...
