Protecting Motherhood
Women and the Family in the Politics of Postwar West Germany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11089927 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Myra Marx Ferree (0000-0002-8070-6569) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 244 |
| Publication date | 1994-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Protecting motherhood: Women and the family in the politics of postwar West Germany, Robert G Moeller, 1993 |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2075222 |
| OpenAlex | W2329189621 |
| Language | EN |
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
Economic history · Political science · Politics · Sociology · West germany · European history and politics · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Law
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| Highly cited | No |
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