Women and National Socialism in Postwar German Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and National Socialism in Postwar German Literature write by Katherine Stone. This book was released on 2017. Women and National Socialism in Postwar German Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Guilt and Defense
Guilt and Defense - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Guilt and Defense write by Theodor W. Adorno. This book was released on 2010-06-15. Guilt and Defense available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this series of interlocking essays, which had their start as lectures inspired by the presidency of Barack Obama, Robert Burns Stepto sets canonical works of African American literature in conversation with Obama's Dreams from My Father. The elegant readings that result shed surprising light on unexamined angles of works ranging from Frederick Douglass's Narrative to W.E.B. Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk to Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon.
Protecting Motherhood
Protecting Motherhood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Protecting Motherhood write by Robert G. Moeller. This book was released on 1996-01-01. Protecting Motherhood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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
What Difference Does a Husband Make?
What Difference Does a Husband Make? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What Difference Does a Husband Make? write by Elizabeth D. Heineman. This book was released on 1999-04-20. What Difference Does a Husband Make? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Facing Fascism and Confronting the Past
Facing Fascism and Confronting the Past - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Facing Fascism and Confronting the Past write by Elke P. Frederiksen. This book was released on 2000-06-08. Facing Fascism and Confronting the Past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines German women's literary and cultural representations of the Nazi era.
