Robert G. Moeller - Protecting Motherhood: Women and the Family in the Politics of Postwar West Germany

Protecting Motherhood: Women and the Family in the Politics of Postwar West Germany — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Protecting Motherhood: Women and the Family in the Politics of Postwar West Germany" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

1234567...179

---

title	:
author	:
publisher	:
isbn10 | asin	:
print isbn13	:
ebook isbn13	:
language	:
subject
publication date	:
lcc	:
ddc	:
subject	:

Page iii Protecting Motherhood Women and the Family in the Politics of Postwar West Germany Robert G. Moeller University of California Press Berkeley Los Angeles London

Page iv University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. Oxford, England 1993 by The Regents of the University of California Material in this book appeared earlier in journal articles and is used with permission: "Protecting Mother's Work: From Production to Reproduction in Postwar West Germany," Journal of Social History 22 (1989): 413-37, and "Reconstructing the Family in Reconstruction Germany: Women and Social Policy in the Federal Republic, 1949-1955," Feminist Studies 15 (1989): 137-69. First Paperback Printing 1996 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Moeller, Robert G. Protecting motherhood: Women and the family in the politics of postwar West Germany / Robert G. Moeller. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-520-20516-2 (pbk: alk. paper) 1. WomenGovernment policyGermany (West) 2. Motherhood Government policyGermany (West) 3. Family policyGermany (West) 4. Women's rightsGermany (West) I. Title. HQ 1236.5.G3M64 1993 305.42dc20 92-6622 CIP Printed in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.

Page v For Lynn Mally

Page vii Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Emerging from the Rubble: "No more bomb attacks... but nothing more to eat" 8 2. Constituting Political Bodies: Gender and the Basic Law 38 3. Legislating Women's Place 76 4. Reconstructed Families in Reconstruction Germany 109 5. Protecting Mothers' Work 142 6. Women's Equality and the Family's Protection: The Family Law Reform of 1957 180 Epilogue 211 Notes 229 Bibliography 291 Index 333

Page ix Illustrations Following Page 108 1. Poster proclaiming "Security for the family" under the Nazis. 2. Poster calling for women workers to help with the intensified total-war effort. 3. Poster invoking imagery of black soldiers who served in the Allied occupation forces following World War I. 4. Children playing in the rubble, ca. 1948. 5. "Women of the rubble" cleaning off bricks, 1946. 6. "Women of the rubble" taking a break from their work, 1945. 7. Women collecting firewood in Berlin, ca. 1949. 8. City women on a trip to the countryside to barter for food, 1946. 9. Emergency housing in a basement, ca. 1946-1947. 10. Soldiers' grave and the Frauenberschuss, ca. 1946. 11. Women representatives to the Parliamentary Council. 12. SPD poster proclaiming "Equal rights for man and woman." 13. CSU poster calling for parental rights. 14. SPD poster image of children calling on their mother for a peaceful future. 15. SPD poster promising a better future for mother and child. 16. SPD poster appealing for votes from the "surplus of women." 17. SPD poster appealing for votes from working women.

Page x 18. CDU poster portraying communist threat to mother and child. 19. FDP poster invoking mother and child as an image of the future. 20. FDP poster appealing for votes from "women standing alone." 21. KPD poster proclaiming communist support for mothers and children. 22. CDU poster appealing for the vote of the "Christian woman."

Next page

1234567...179

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «Protecting Motherhood: Women and the Family in the Politics of Postwar West Germany»

Look at similar books to Protecting Motherhood: Women and the Family in the Politics of Postwar West Germany. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.

Tansin Benn

Muslim Women and Sport

Joanna Regulska

Women and Gender in Postwar Europe: From Cold War to European Union

Dee Garceau-Hagen

Portraits of Women in the American West

Carola Sachse

Industrial Housewives: Womens Social Work in the Factories of Nazi Germany

Jill Stephenson

Women in Nazi Germany

Karl Koch

West Germany Today

Nazanin Shahrokni

Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran

Slobodian

Foreign front : Third World politics in sixties West Germany

Melzer

Death in the shape of a young girl : womens political violence in the Red Army Faction

Jeff Savage

Pioneering Women. True Tales of the Wild West

Suha Sabbagh

Palestinian women of Gaza and the West Bank

Heide Fehrenbach

Cinema in Democratizing Germany: Reconstructing National Identity After Hitler

Discussion, reviews of the book Protecting Motherhood: Women and the Family in the Politics of Postwar West Germany and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.