The Surplus Woman: Unmarried in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918 0857453130, 9780857453136

The first German women’s movement embraced the belief in a demographic surplus of unwed women, known as the Frauenübersc

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The Surplus Woman: Unmarried in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918
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The first German womenOCOs movement embraced the belief in a demographic surplus of unwed women, known as the "Frau

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Throughout the Weimar period the so-called “masculinization of woman” was much more than merely an outsider or subcultur

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With the rise of imperialism, the centuries-old European tradition of humanist scholarship as the key to understanding t

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The German Empire was founded in January 1871 not only on the basis of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck's 'blood a

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The Wilhelmine period is a crucial period of German history and the focus of great historical controversy; greater under

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Misconceptions argues that child welfare measures which simultaneously seek to rescue children and punish errant women w

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Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. At a time when part-time jobs are ubiq

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