The Imagined Hausfrau: National Identity, Domesticity, and Colonialism in Imperial Germany*
@article{Reagin2001TheIH, title={The Imagined Hausfrau: National Identity, Domesticity, and Colonialism in Imperial Germany*}, author={Nancy R. Reagin}, journal={The Journal of Modern History}, year={2001}, volume={73}, pages={54 - 86} }
Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick, the author of the 1908 work Home Life in Germany, was a bourgeois woman of German parentage who married an Englishman around the turn of the century. Accustomed to German styles of housekeeping, she had to adjust to English approaches to household management after her marriage, and she observed English domesticity with wry amusement. When she first heard a discussion of “English housekeeping,” she later wrote, “it was a new idea to me that any women in the world except the…
25 Citations
“Heimischwerden Deutscher Art und Sitte” Power, Gender, and Diaspora in the Colonial Contest
- HistoryItinerario
- 2013
In 1909, in a public lecture on German colonial politics, author and colonial activist Clara Brockmann emphasised the crucial role of female emigration to the colonies of the Kaiserreich (German…
Women, Gender and National Identity: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives
- Sociology, History
- 2012
Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, one of the leading feminist and nationalist campaigners in twentieth-century Ireland, argued that women who were members of the organizations examined in this book did not…
Gender, Sexuality, and Coming to Terms with the Nazi Past
- ArtCentral European History
- 2005
In the years leading to the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War, popular books and films have sparked lively discussions about the ways Germans use gender and sexuality to…
Between Third Reich And American Way: Transatlantic Migration And The Politics Of Belonging, 1919-1939
- History, Sociology
- 2016
Historians consider the years between World War I and World War II to be a period of decline for German America. This dissertation complicates that argument by applying a transnational framework to…
At home in Prague : representations of home in the Czechoslovakian interwar
- Sociology
- 2013
The First Republic of Czechoslovakia existed from October 1918 to March 1939. Formed from
territories previously part of the Austro-Hungarian or Habsburg Empire, the nation of
Czechoslovakia was a…
The Rules of the Game: Respectability, Sexuality, and the Femme Mondaine in Late-Nineteenth-Century Paris
- HistoryFrench historical studies
- 2002
At the end of the nineteenth century, upper-middle-class Parisian women found the rules of respectability flexible enough to allow them to pursue sexual love within marriage—and even outside of it—and this change was made possible by the convergence of two models.
Print Capitalism and Women's Sexual Agency in the Late Ottoman Empire
- History
- 2011
Increasingly, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, publications appeared in the Ottoman Empire that took issue with traditional norms of gender and sexuality and advocated…
Selling France to the French: The French Zone of Occupation in Western Germany, 1945–c.1955
- Political ScienceContemporary European History
- 2012
Abstract This article contributes to the literature of occupation, as well as to transnational history, by exploring the social history of the military government in the French Zone of Occupation in…
Nationalism and family ideology: The case of Lithuania at the turn of the 20th century
- Economics, Sociology
- 2006
Gender and Visuality: Identification Photographs, Respectability and Personhood in Colonial Southern Africa in the 1920s and 1930s
- History
- 2014
This article is concerned with the visual dimensions of gender as they surface in an archive of administrative identification in Southern Africa in the interwar period. Scholars of Africa have widely…
References
SHOWING 1-10 OF 17 REFERENCES
The contrast of self with (imagined) African domestic disorder still reverberates within German popular culture today, as witnessed by the common saying "hier sieht es aus wie bei den Hottentotten
Comments on the poor personal hygiene of Africans were ubiquitous in travel literature and memoirs
Unsere Schwestern in Deutsch-Ostafrika
Und herrschet weise
- See also Hagemann (n. 9 above)
Kolonie und Heimat regularly featured proposed Küchenzettel for settler women, which incorporated some local ingredients but maintained the basic patterns and structure of German bourgeois cuisine
- Kolonie und Heimat
Erlebnisse einer deutschen Erzieherin in Frankreich
- Die Deutsche Hausfrauen-Zeitung
Zum Anteil der Kollektivsymbolik an den Nationalstereotypen
African Encounters with Domesticity (n. 77 above)