Women in the Third Reich

The importance of gender as a category of analysis is now very widely accepted, but there has been a slowness to bring it to bear in general interpretative surveys of Nazi Germany. This new study aims to remedy the omission, to reintroduce as actors on the historical stage that half of the German population who were female. This volume asks why such a sizeable proportion was ready to rally around a movement both blatantly anti-feminist and determined to exclude women from public life; how ordinary Germans translated Nazi beliefs into action; and what, other than gender, influenced their political choices between 1933 and 1945>

About the author

Matthew Stibbe is Professor of Modern European History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He is the author of several books, including Germany, 1914-1933: Politics, Society and Culture (2010), and the editor of several volumes of essays on 20th-century European themes, including Aftermaths of War (2011) and Women Activists between War and Peace (2017), both co-edited with Ingrid Sharp.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Stibbe, Stibbe Matthew, Matthew Stibe
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2003
• EAN: 9780340761045
• ISBN: 978-0-340-76104-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 232 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Arnold Publication; Arnold Publication
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, HISTORY / Women, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, Fascism & Nazism, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Gender studies: women, Far-right political ideologies and movements, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Gender studies: women and girls, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)