Protecting Motherhood: Women and the Family in the Politics of Postwar West Germany
@inproceedings{Moeller1993ProtectingMW, title={Protecting Motherhood: Women and the Family in the Politics of Postwar West Germany}, author={R. G. Moeller}, year={1993} }
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… Expand
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