Racism and Sexism in Nazi Germany: Motherhood, Compulsory Sterilization, and the State

TitleRacism and Sexism in Nazi Germany: Motherhood, Compulsory Sterilization, and the State
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication1983
AuthorsBock, Gisela
JournalSigns: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Volume8
Issue3
Pagination400 - 421
Abstract

This essay considers larger questions about the complex connections between racism and sexism by focusing on the sterilization policy of Nazi Germany against German women. It explores both sides of the population policy of Nazi Germany: the pronatalist that supported German women and mothers perceived as socially and racially "worthy" by the Third Reich, and the anti-natalist against women deemed socially and racially "unworthy" by the Nazis like Jewish and Sinti and Roma  women, but also so-called "asocial" women and women with mental and physical "disabilities." Sterlization was one anti-natalist practice used against "unworthy" German women.

URLhttps://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/493983
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