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Author : Renate Bridenthal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book When Biology Became Destiny written by Renate Bridenthal and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays discuss Weimar politics, feminism, and Nazi racism.
Author : Michelle Mouton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521861845
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book From Nurturing the Nation to Purifying the Volk written by Michelle Mouton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-08 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Weimar and Nazi family policy to highlight the disparity between national policy design and its implementation at the local level.
Author : Charles Werner Haxthausen
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452908176
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Berlin written by Charles Werner Haxthausen and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays discuss how Berlin and its culture have been portrayed in literature, poetry, film, cabaret, and the visual arts
Author : Carole C. Galluci
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838638293
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (382 download)
Download or read book Writing Beyond Fascism written by Carole C. Galluci and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays, the first of its kind in English or Italian, examines de Cespedes's major texts, asking how the author wrote against Fascism and beyond it. The essays engage current interpretive and heuristic tools and take on a matrix of issues ranging from semiotic to psychoanalytic, from feminist to historical, from a concern for mass culture to cultural studies.
Author : Dean H. Hamer
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385485840
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)
Download or read book Living with Our Genes written by Dean H. Hamer and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1999-02-16 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A lucid, thought-provoking account of the case for 'nature' as a determinant of personality."—Peter D. Kramer, Author of Listening to Prozac and Should You Leave? Nowhere is the nature-nurture controversy being more arduously tested than in the labs of world-renowned molecular scientist Dean Hamer, whose cutting-edge research has indisputably linked specific genes to behavioral traits, such as anxiety, thrill-seeking, and homosexuality. The culmination of that research is this provocative book, Living with Our Genes. In it, Dr. Hamer reveals that much of our behavior—how much we eat and weigh, whether we drink or use drugs, how often we have sex—is heavily influenced by genes. His findings help explain why one brother becomes a Wall Street trader, while his sibling remains content as a librarian, or why some people like to bungee-jump, while others prefer Scrabble. Dr. Hamer also sheds light on some of the most compelling and vexing aspects of personality, such as shyness, aggression, depression, and intelligence. In the tradition of the bestselling book Listening to Prozac, Living with Our Genes is the first comprehensive investigation of the crucial link between our DNA and our behavior. "Compulsive reading, reminiscent of Jared Diamond, from a scientist who knows his stuff and communicates it well."—Kirkus Reviews "A pioneer in the field of molecular psychology, Hamer is exploring the role genes play in governing the very core of our individuality. Accessible . . . provocative."—Time "Absolutely terrific! I couldn't put it down."—Professor Robert Plomin, Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Research Center, Institute of Psychiatry
Author : Matthew Stibbe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317866541
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Germany, 1914-1933 written by Matthew Stibbe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Germany, 1914-1933: Politics, Society and Culture takes a fresh and critical look at a crucial period in German history. Rather than starting with the traditional date of 1918, the book begins with the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, and argues that this was a pivotal turning point in shaping the future successes and failures of the Weimar Republic. Combining traditional political narrative with new insights provided by social and cultural history, the book reconsiders such key questions as: How widespread was support for the war in Germany between 1914 and 1918? How was the war viewed both ‘from above’, by leading generals, admirals and statesmen, and ‘from below’, by ordinary soldiers and civilians? What were the chief political, social, economic and cultural consequences of the war? In particular, did it result in a brutalisation of German society after 1918? How modern were German attitudes towards work, family, sex and leisure during the 1920s? What accounts for the extraordinary richness and experimentalism of this period? The book also provides a thorough and comprehensive discussion of the difficulties faced by the Weimar Republic in capturing the hearts and minds of the German people in the 1920s, and of the causes of its final demise in the early 1930s.
Author : Kathleen Canning
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 184545846X
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Weimar Publics/Weimar Subjects written by Kathleen Canning and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of having been short-lived, “Weimar” has never lost its fascination. Until recently the Weimar Republic’s place in German history was primarily defined by its catastrophic beginning and end - Germany’s defeat in 1918 and the Nazi seizure of power in 1933; its history seen mainly in terms of politics and as an arena of flawed decisions and failed compromises. However, a flourishing of interdisciplinary scholarship on Weimar political culture is uncovering arenas of conflict and change that had not been studied closely before, such as gender, body politics, masculinity, citizenship, empire and borderlands, visual culture, popular culture and consumption. This collection offers new perspectives from leading scholars in the disciplines of history, art history, film studies, and German studies on the vibrant political culture of Germany in the 1920s. From the traumatic ruptures of defeat, revolution, and collapse of the Kaiser’s state, the visionaries of Weimar went on to invent a republic, calling forth new citizens and cultural innovations that shaped the republic far beyond the realms of parliaments and political parties.
Author : Phil Leask
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1805393650
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Friendship without Borders written by Phil Leask and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across half a century, from the division of Germany through the end of the Cold War, a cohort of thirty women from the small German town of Schönebeck in what used to be the GDR circulated among themselves a remarkable collective archive of their lives: a Rundbrief, or bulletin, containing hundreds of letters and photographs. This book draws on that unprecedented resource, complemented by a set of interviews, to paint a rich portrait of “ordinary” life in postwar Germany. It shows how these women—whether reflecting on their experiences as Nazi-era schoolchildren or witnessing reunification—were united by their complex interactions with official power and their commitment to sustaining a shared German identity as they made the most of their everyday lives in both the GDR and the Federal Republic.
Author : Susan Funkenstein
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472054619
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Marking Modern Movement written by Susan Funkenstein and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine yourself in Weimar Germany: you are visually inundated with depictions of dance. Perusing a women’s magazine, you find photograph after photograph of leggy revue starlets, clad in sequins and feathers, coquettishly smiling at you. When you attend an art exhibition, you encounter Otto Dix’s six-foot-tall triptych Metropolis, featuring Charleston dancers in the latest luxurious fashions, or Emil Nolde’s watercolors of Mary Wigman, with their luminous blues and purples evoking her choreographies’ mystery and expressivity. Invited to the Bauhaus, you participate in the Metallic Festival, and witness the school’s transformation into a humorous, shiny, technological total work of art; you costume yourself by strapping a metal plate to your head, admire your reflection in the tin balls hanging from the ceiling, and dance the Bauhaus’ signature step in which you vigorously hop and stomp late into the night. Yet behind the razzle dazzle of these depictions and experiences was one far more complex involving issues of gender and the body during a tumultuous period in history, Germany’s first democracy (1918-1933). Rather than mere titillation, the images copiously illustrated and analyzed in Marking Modern Movement illuminate how visual artists and dancers befriended one another and collaborated together. In many ways because of these bonds, artists and dancers forged a new path in which images revealed artists’ deep understanding of dance, their dynamic engagement with popular culture, and out of that, a possibility of representing women dancers as cultural authorities to be respected. Through six case studies, Marking Modern Movement explores how and why these complex dynamics occurred in ways specific to their historical moment. Extensively illustrated and with color plates, Marking Modern Movement is a clearly written book accessible to general readers and undergraduates. Coming at a time of a growing number of major art museums showcasing large-scale exhibitions on images of dance, the audience exists for a substantial general-public interest in this topic. Conversing across German studies, art history, dance studies, gender studies, and popular culture studies, Marking Modern Movement is intended to engage readers coming from a wide range of perspectives and interests.
Author : H. Vaizey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230289908
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Surviving Hitler’s War written by H. Vaizey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-09-22 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telling the stories of mothers, fathers and children in their own words, Vaizey recreates the experience of family life in Nazi Germany. From last letters of doomed soldiers at Stalingrad to diaries kept by women trying to keep their families alive in cities under attack, the book vividly describes family life under the most extreme conditions.
Author : Marcelline J. Hutton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0742510433
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)
Download or read book Russian and West European Women, 1860-1939 written by Marcelline J. Hutton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious study provides a sweeping overview of the position of women in England, France, Germany, and Russia/USSR from 1860-1939. The book illustrates their struggles to realize their dreams and their resourcefulness in coping with often dreary, hard, even horrifying lives. Deftly combining statistical data to underscore collective experiences and belles lettres to highlight the texture of individual women's lives, the book assesses the significance of gender, class, nationality, and religion. This richly researched work traces common patterns and unique experiences in women's lives by showing how they defined themselves, coped with daily life, and confronted disaster with courage and resourcefulness.
Author : Adele E. Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131779544X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Revisioning Women, Health and Healing written by Adele E. Clarke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging collection examines the implications and representations of race, class and gender in health care offering new approaches to women's health care. Subjects covered range from reproductive issues to AIDS.
Author : Julia Roos
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472123718
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Weimar through the Lens of Gender written by Julia Roos and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book will make a valuable contribution to the field of German history, as well as the histories of gender and sexuality. The argument that Weimar feminism did bring about tangible gains for women needs to be made, and Roos has done so convincingly." ---Julia Sneeringer, Queens College Until 1927, Germany had a system of state-regulated prostitution, under which only those prostitutes who submitted to regular health checks and numerous other restrictions on their personal freedom were tolerated by the police. Male clients of prostitutes were not subject to any controls. The decriminalization of prostitution in 1927 resulted from important postwar gains in women's rights; yet this change---while welcomed by feminists, Social Democrats, and liberals—also mobilized powerful conservative resistance. In the early 1930s, the right-wing backlash against liberal gender reforms like the 1927 prostitution law played a fateful role in the downfall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Nazism. Weimar through the Lens of Gender combines the political history of early twentieth-century Germany with analytical perspectives derived from the fields of gender studies and the history of sexuality. The book's argument will be of interest to a broad readership: specialists in the fields of gender studies and the history of sexuality, as well as historians and general readers interested in Weimar and Nazi Germany. Julia Roos is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington. Jacket art: "Hamburg, vermutlich St. Pauli, 1920er–30er Jahre," photographer unknown, s/w-Fotografie. (Courtesy of the Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte.)
Author : J. Lim
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230283276
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Gender Politics and Mass Dictatorship written by J. Lim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique in comparative scope, this volume brings together global scholarship on gender. Thirteen international experts explore the gendered mobilization of men and women in twentieth century European and Asian mass dictatorships and colonial empires, examining both mobilization 'from above' and self-empowerment 'from below'.
Author : Jill Stephenson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317876083
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Women in Nazi Germany written by Jill Stephenson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From images of jubilant mothers offering the Nazi salute, to Eva Braun and Magda Goebbels, women in Hitler’s Germany and their role as supporters and guarantors of the Third Reich continue to exert a particular fascination. This account moves away from the stereotypes to provide a more complete picture of how they experienced Nazism in peacetime and at war. What was the status and role of women in pre-Nazi Germany and how did different groups of women respond to the Nazi project in practice? Jill Stephenson looks at the social, cultural and economic organisation of women’s lives under Nazism, and assesses opposing claims that German women were either victims or villains of National Socialism.
Author : Cornelie Usborne
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349122440
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book The Politics of the Body in Weimar Germany written by Cornelie Usborne and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-04-08 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses how the Weimar Republic put Germany in the forefront of social reform and women's emancipation with wide-ranging maternal welfare programmes and labour protection laws. Its enlightened policy of family planning and liberalised abortion laws offered women a new measure of control over their lives. But the new politics of the body also increased state intervention, the power of the medical profession and the tendency to sacrifice women's rights to national interests whenever the Volk seemed in danger of 'racial decline'.
Author : Helmut Gruber
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785330063
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Women and Socialism - Socialism and Women written by Helmut Gruber and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently, histories of women tended to be segregated from the larger historical context. This pioneering volume places the role of women within the history of the interwar years, whenboth the women's and socialist movements became prominent, and raises the key question of how power was distributed between the genders in a historical setting. The emblematic title of this volume highlights the fundamental conception of this comparative study of eleven West European countries: that in the interwar decades two great movements gained in strength, converged, diverged, competed, and cooperated. Each of these movements is viewed as acomplex matrix of organized and unorganized participants. However, by far the most provocative questions deal with gender relations. Central to these are definitions of femininity and masculinity in terms of mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion at the workplace, in the home, and in the political arena. The mystique of the "new woman" in the 1920s and the 1930s challenged traditional notions of gender identity and relations, not the least of which was the redefinition of the role of men. The main issue addressed in this volume is not how male socialists "dealt with" the woman question or how women functioned in or outside left-wingparties; it rather centers on illustrating the power distribution between the sexes in specific political and cultural contexts. This rigorously focused and coherent volume, to which some of the best-known scholars in the field have contributed, will no doubt establish itself as the standard reference work for years to come.
