Women Doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany - Maternalism, Eugenics, and Professional Identity

This book traces the rhetoric that politically active and professionally engaged female physicians used to maintain their presence and strengthen their significance in women’s and children’s medical spaces in Weimar and Nazi Germany.

Sommario

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Promoting Marriage, Motherhood, Eugenics, and Comprehensive Healthcare in Marriage Counselling Centres
2. Preparing Girls for Motherhood: School Doctors, Youth Welfare, and the Reform of Girls’ Physical Education
3. Fighting the Vices That Threatened Women and Children: Sex, Alcohol, and Disease
4. Building the Volksgemeinschaft and Supporting Racial Hygiene in the Bund Deutscher Mädel and Reichsmütterdienst
5. Advocating Healthy Infant Nutrition Practices through Breast Milk Collection: Maternal Guardians on the Home Front
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Info autore

Melissa Kravetz is an associate professor of history and co-chair of women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Longwood University.

Riassunto

This book traces the rhetoric that politically active and professionally engaged female physicians used to maintain their presence and strengthen their significance in women’s and children’s medical spaces in Weimar and Nazi Germany.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Melissa Kravetz
• Editore: University of Toronto Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9781442629646
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-2964-6
• Pagine: 344
• Serie: German and European Studies; German and European Studies
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Tematiche generali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia; Europa, Europäische Geschichte, Archäologie einer Periode / Region, 1000 bis 1500 nach Christus, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte