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Protecting Motherhood: Women and the Family in the Politics of Postwar West
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Protecting Motherhood: Women and the Family in the Politics of Postwar West Germany Paperback - 1996

by Robert G. Moeller

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Robert G. Moeller is the first historian of modern German women to use social policy as a lens to focus on society's conceptions of gender difference and "woman's place." He investigates the social, economic, and political status of women in West Germany after World War II to reveal how the West Germans, emerging from the rubble of the Third Reich, viewed a reconsideration of gender relations as an essential part of social reconstruction.

The debate over "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."

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January 1993, the Nazi seizure of power; September 1939, the German invasion of Poland and the start of the Second World War; May 1945, the German defeat and surrender-these are dates familiar to everyone, events that frame most accounts of the history of National Socialist Germany.

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  • Title Protecting Motherhood: Women and the Family in the Politics of Postwar West Germany
  • Author Robert G. Moeller
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 346
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, NJ
  • Publication date September 27, 1996
  • ISBN 9780520205161 / 0520205162
  • Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.97 x 6.04 x 1.12 in (22.78 x 15.34 x 2.84 cm)
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 92006622
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.42

About the author

Robert G. Moeller is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of German Peasants and Agrarian Politics, 1914-1924: The Rhineland and Westphalia (1986).

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Protecting Motherhood: Women and the Family in the Politics of Postwar West Germany

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