Women And National Socialism In Postwar German Literature

Author : Katherine Stone
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781571139948

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Women and National Socialism in Postwar German Literature by Katherine Stone Pdf

In recent years, historians have revealed the many ways in which German women supported National Socialism-as teachers, frontline auxiliaries, and nurses, as well as in political organizations. In mainstream culture, however, the women of the period are still predominantly depicted as the victims of a violent twentieth century whose atrocities were committed by men. They are frequently imagined as post hoc redeemers of the nation, as the "rubble women" who spiritually and literally rebuilt Germany. This book investigates why the question of women's complicity in the Third Reich has struggled to capture the historical imagination in the same way. It explores how female authors from across the political and generational spectrum (Ingeborg Bachmann, Christa Wolf, Elisabeth Plessen, Gisela Elsner, Tanja D ckers, Jenny Erpenbeck) conceptualize the role of women in the Third Reich. As well as offering innovative re-readings of celebrated works, this book provides instructive interpretations of lesser-known texts that nonetheless enrich our understanding of German memory culture. Katherine Stone is Assistant Professor in German Studies at the University of Warwick.

Author : James MacPherson Ritchie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Communist literature
ISBN : UCAL:B4951476

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German Literature Under National Socialism by James MacPherson Ritchie Pdf

Beginning with an exploration of proto-Nazi literature in the late nineteenth century and pursuing later developments up to the arrival of fully fledged National Socialist literature, the author shows the Nazi reaction against big city decadence, Marxism and pacifism.

Author : Helmut Schmitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050819955

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German Culture and the Uncomfortable Past by Helmut Schmitz Pdf

Beginning with the question of the role of the past in the shaping of a contemporary identity, this volumes spans three generations of German and Austrian writers and explores changes and shifts in the aesthetics of Vergangenheitsbewältigung (coming to terms with the past). The purpose of the book is to assess contemporary German literary representations of National Socialism in a wider context of these current debates. The contributors address questions arising from a shift over the last decade, triggered by a generation change-questions of personal and national identity in Germany and Austria, and the aesthetics of memory. One of the central questions that emerges in relation to the Hitler youth generation is that of biography, as examined through GÃ1/4nter Grass' and Martin Walser's conflicting views on the subject of National Socialism. Other themes explored here are the conflict between the post-war generations and the contributions of that conflict to (West)-German mentality, and the growing historical distance and its influence on the aesthetics of representation.

Author : Elisabeth Krimmer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108472821

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German Women's Life Writing and the Holocaust by Elisabeth Krimmer Pdf

Examines women's life writing in order to shed light on female complicity in the Second World War and the Holocaust.

Author : Leila J. Rupp
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400870974

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Mobilizing Women for War by Leila J. Rupp Pdf

To discover how war can affect the status of women in industrial countries, Leila Rupp examines mobilization propaganda directed at women in Nazi Germany and the United States. Her book explores the relationship between ideology and policy, challenging the idea that wars improve the status of women by bringing them into new areas of activity. Using fresh sources for both Germany and the United States, Professor Rupp considers the images of women before and during the war, the role of propaganda in securing their support, and the ideal of feminine behavior in each country. Her analysis shows that propaganda was more intensive in the United States than in Germany, and that it figured in the success of American mobilization and the failure of the German campaign to enlist women's participation. The most important function of propaganda, however, consisted in adapting popular conceptions to economic need. The author finds that public images of women can adjust to wartime priorities without threatening traditional assumptions about social roles. The mode of adaptation, she suggests, helps to explain the lack of change in women's status in postwar society. Far-reaching in its implications for feminist studies, this book offers a new and fruitful approach to the social, economic, and political history of Germany and the United States. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Robert G. Moeller
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520205162

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Protecting Motherhood by Robert G. Moeller Pdf

"Entirely original. . . . All future texts on modern Germany will have to take on board the findings of this major study."--Volker Berghahn, author of Modern Germany

Author : Dörte Ridder
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783638612326

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Assessment of the experiences of women in the Third Reich (1933-1945) by Dörte Ridder Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject History of Germany - National Socialism, World War II, grade: 2,1, University of Sunderland (School of Arts, Design, Media and Culture), language: English, abstract: Introduction “Women have the task of being beautiful and bringing children into the world, and this is by no means as coarse and old-fashioned as one might think.” The aims of the National Socialist women policy have not been as simple as Goebbels puts it in 1939. On the contrary, they were contradictory. Firstly, the regime wanted to reduce women to their biological function. Their central task was breeding. This procreation policy bore two major advantages: It helped the Nazis in pursuing their racial policy of purifying the Aryan race and it provided a means for a decrease in the mass unemployment, as married women were supposed to give up their jobs. Secondly, this family-orientated policy aimed at recording women and girls as party members and to organise them for this purpose in Frauenverbaende (women’s associations). A complete change of this policy took place by the outbreak of World War II and during the war years. ‘Total war’ forced the Nazis to abandon the domestic ideal for women; hence a total mobilization of female labour was attempted although this led to a contradiction within Nazi ideology. “The intention of the conservative revolution to return women to the home had to be subordinated to other ideological goals - industrial expansion and war preparation.” The following essay will examine the development of Nazi policy towards women and will, on the basis of primary sources, assess the experiences of women in the Third Reich from 1933 until 1945. [...]

Author : Roy Jerome
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791490716

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Conceptions of Postwar German Masculinity by Roy Jerome Pdf

This groundbreaking work examines the long-ignored issue of masculinity and masculine identity in German culture, society, and literature, from 1945 to the present. Utilizing emerging men's studies theories, feminism, psychoanalysis, and literary studies, the book provides a resource for understanding how masculinity informs homosocial, male-female, and adult-child relations. Psychologists, literary scholars, and philosophers survey the current state of men's studies in the German academy, the representation of masculinity in postwar German literature, the psychic legacies of fascism, Turkish-German masculinities, Jewish-German masculinities, Neo-Nazi masculine identity, and the relationship between child sexual abuse and masculinity. Most significantly, the book offers tools for critical reflection on how men maintain power over women and other less powerful groups.

Author : Elizabeth D. Heineman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0520937317

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What Difference Does a Husband Make? by Elizabeth D. Heineman Pdf

In October 1946, seven million more women than men lived in occupied Germany. In this study of unwed, divorced, widowed, and married women at work and at home across three political regimes, Elizabeth Heineman traces the transitions from early National Socialism through the war and on to the consolidation of democracy in the West and communism in the East. Based on thorough and extensive research in German national and regional archives as well as the archives of the U.S. occupying forces, this pathbreaking book argues that marital status can define women's position and experience as surely as race, gender, sexual orientation, and class. Heineman finds that, while the war made the experience of single women a dramatic one, state activity was equally important. As a result, West German women continued to be defined in large part by their marital status. In contrast, by the time of reunification marital status had become far less significant in the lives of East German women. In one broad, comprehensive sweep, Elizabeth Heineman compares prewar and postwar, East and West, lived experience and public policy. Her sharp analytical insights will enrich our understanding of the history of women in modern Germany and the role of marital status in twentieth-century life worldwide.

Author : Elke P. Frederiksen,Martha Kaarsberg Wallach
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791445798

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Facing Fascism and Confronting the Past by Elke P. Frederiksen,Martha Kaarsberg Wallach Pdf

Examines German women's literary and cultural representations of the Nazi era.

Author : Jill Stephenson
Publisher : London : Croom Helm
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004101087

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Women in Nazi Society by Jill Stephenson Pdf

Author : Matthew Stibbe
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0340761059

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Women in the Third Reich by Matthew Stibbe Pdf

The importance of gender as a category of analysis is now very widely accepted, but there has been a slowness to bring it to bear in general interpretative surveys of Nazi Germany. This new study aims to remedy the ommission, to reintroduce as actors on the historical stage that half of the German population who were female. This volume asks why such a sizeable proportion was ready to rally around a movement both blatantly anti-feminist and determined to exclude women from public life; how ordinary Germans translated Nazi beliefs into action; and what, other than gender, influenced their political choices between 1933 and 1945.

Author : Wendy Lower
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780547863382

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Hitler's Furies by Wendy Lower Pdf

About the participation of German women in World War II and in the Holocaust.

Author : Birgit Maier-Katkin
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0838756646

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Silence and Acts of Memory by Birgit Maier-Katkin Pdf

This book explores silence and memory in Germany's ongoing discourse about the Nazi past. It examines the ways in which exile literature and critical thought by Anna Seghers joins postwar discourse and current historical research to formulate an acceptable memory of private life during the Third Reich. Seghers' work is particularly relevant in light of a postwar rift between private and public memory discourse. Her texts, The Seventh Cross, The Excursion of the Dead Girls, and especially her depictions of female figures offer a rare in-depth examination of ordinary life under Hitler. From exile, Seghers reveals hidden voices and personal experience with the Nazi regime that linger in the silenced voids of history. Silence and Acts of Memory reconnects private and public discourse about traumatic events of the Nazi past; the book contributes valuable insights to the current discourse about the continuing formative process of German national identity. Birgit Maier-Katkin is an Associate Professor of German at the Florida State University.

Author : Patricia A. Herminghouse
Publisher : Continuum
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826409571

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Selected Prose and Drama: Ingeborg Bachmann and Christa Wolf by Patricia A. Herminghouse Pdf

This volume brings together the two most important women writers of postwar German literature: Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-73) and Christa Wolf (b. 1929). Both grew up during the National Socialist era, and in their adult lives have remained critical of their respective societies' failure to confront the history of this era.