Women in Nazi Germany

What was the experience of women in Nazi Germany in peacetime and during the Second World War?

Through a consideration of race, reproduction and sexuality, employment patterns and opportunities, education and socialization, and the wartime fate of both favoured 'Aryan' women and the Nazi regime's designated 'racial enemies' and its opponents, this history challenges both myths which have persisted and theories which have recently dominated debate about this subject.

Concluding with a discussion of the 'perpetrators and victims' debate, the salience of 'class' in Nazi Germany and the extent to which Nazism provided new opportunities for women, the text is supported by a Documents Section which includes many sources previously unpublished in English.

Author: Jill Stephenson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 10/05/2001
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.30h x 5.78w x 0.54d
ISBN: 9780582418363

About the Author

Jill Stephenson is Reader in History at the University of Edinburgh.