Mothers of the nation right-wing women in Weimar Germany

Title:

Author:

Scheck, Raffael, 1960-

ISBN:

9781845205560

9781417598090

9781280339349

Personal Author:

Scheck, Raffael, 1960-

Publication Information:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, c2004.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 234 p.)

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Women's Entry into Party Politics; 3 Hostility to Women in Politics; 4 Women's Rights and Housewives Power; 5 Family Youth and Morality; 6 Small Rentiers; 7 Foreign Policy; 8 Women's Local Politics; 9 The Nazi Challenge; Conclusion; Reference Sources; Bibliography; Index;

Abstract:

What role did right-wing women play in the Nazi rise to power?Mothers of the Nation analyzes the work of women in the German Peoples Party and the German National Peoples Party - parties that covered the range from the moderate to the radical right. Looking at politics on both the local and national level, the author discusses issues ranging from social welfare to foreign policy. He shows that right-wing women, in keeping with the tradition of the German bourgeois womens movement, refused to sta nd up primarily for womens interests and instead invoked the Volksgemeinschaft (community of the p

Corporate Subject:

Deutschnationale Volkspartei.

Demokratische Volkspartei (Germany)

Democratische Volkspartei (Germany)

Deutsche Volkspartei.

Subject Term:

Women -- Political activity -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.

Conservatism -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.

National socialism and women.

Electronic books.

Vrouwen.

Rechts (politiek)