Protecting Motherhood: Women and the Family in the Politics of Postwar West Germany
Title | Protecting Motherhood: Women and the Family in the Politics of Postwar West Germany |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 1993 |
Authors | Moeller, Robert |
Number of Pages | 346 |
Publisher | University of California Press |
City | Berkeley, CA |
Abstract | The debate over a "woman's place" in the fifties was part of West Germany's confrontation with the ideological legacy of National Socialism. At the same time, the presence of the Cold War influenced all debates about women and the family. In response to the "woman question," West Germans defined the boundaries not only between women and men, but also between East and West. Moeller's study shows that public policy is a crucial arena where women's needs, capacities, and possibilities are discussed, identified, defined, and reinforced. Nowhere more explicitly than in the first decade of West Germany's history did, in Joan Scott's words, "politics construct gender and gender construct politics." |
URL | https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft3c6004gk;query=;brand=ucpress |
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