Feminism and Motherhood in Germany, 1800-1914

by Ann Taylor Allen

European historians have noted the prominent role of the maternal ethic -- the idea that woman's role as mother extends into society as a whole -- in the theory and practice of German feminism from 1840 to 1914. This body of ideas, however, has seldom been taken seriously. German feminism has been interpreted as a political strategy, not as an intellectual tradition. Historians have portrayed German feminists as conservative, in contrast to their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813516862
• ISBN13: 9780813516868
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.