German Women for Empire, 1884-1945

by Wildenthal, Lora; Adams, Julia; Steinmetz, George

• ISBN13: 9780822328193
• ISBN10: 0822328194
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"Wildenthal tells an important set of stories about the implication of white women in the modern imperial enterprise. This book will become a must-read for German historians, students of feminism, modern women, and empire and reform movements; as well as a model for how to do colonial women's history."--Antoinette Burton, author of "At the Heart of Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late-Victorian Britain "

Author Biography

Lora Wildenthal is Associate Professor of History at Texas A&M University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(12)
Colonial Nursing as the First Realm of Colonialist Women's Activism, 1885-1907	13	(41)
The Feminine Radical Nationalism of Frieda von Bulow	54	(25)
A New Colonial Masculinity: The Men's Debate over ``Race Mixing'' in the Colonies	79	(52)
A New Colonial Femininity: Feminism, Race Purity, and Domesticity, 1898-1914	131	(41)
The Woman Citizen and the Lost Colonial Empire in Weimar and Nazi Germany	172	(29)
Epilogue	201	(2)
Appendix: Colonialist and Women's Organizations	203	(2)
Notes	205	(82)
Bibliography	287	(38)
Index	325