Michelle Mouton

From Nurturing the Nation to Purifying the Volk

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores Weimar and Nazi family policy to highlight the disparity between national policy design and its implementation at the local level.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9780521145749
• ISBN-10: 0521145740
• Artikelnr.: 28027715

Autorenporträt

Michelle Mouton is associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1997. She is the recipient of the Fritz Stern Prize awarded by the German Historical Institute for the best dissertation in German History upon which this book is based. She has published articles in Central European History Journal, the Journal of Women's History, and the History Workshop Journal.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Marriage policy in turmoil: stabilizing society, re-ordering gender roles, and guaranteeing the future
2. Divorce: balancing individual freedom and the 'public good'
3. From Mother's Day to forced sterilization: motherhood as antidote to national health
4. Alleviating the burdens of motherhood
5. Morality versus mortality: negotiating policy toward single mothers and illegitimate children
6. Forming families beyond blood ties: foster care
7. Conclusion.