What Difference Does a Husband Make Women and Marital Status in Nazi and Postwar Germany Studies on the History of Society and Culture First Edition by Elizabeth D Heineman ISBN 0520239075 978-0520239074

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ISBN 10: 0520239075

ISBN 13: 978-0520239074

Author: Elizabeth D. Heineman

In October 1946, seven million more women than men lived in occupied Germany. In this study of unwed, divorced, widowed, and married women at work and at home across three political regimes, Elizabeth Heineman traces the transitions from early National Socialism through the war and on to the consolidation of democracy in the West and communism in the East.

Based on thorough and extensive research in German national and regional archives as well as the archives of the U.S. occupying forces, this pathbreaking book argues that marital status can define women’s position and experience as surely as race, gender, sexual orientation, and class. Heineman finds that, while the war made the experience of single women a dramatic one, state activity was equally important. As a result, West German women continued to be defined in large part by their marital status. In contrast, by the time of reunification marital status had become far less significant in the lives of East German women.

In one broad, comprehensive sweep, Elizabeth Heineman compares prewar and postwar, East and West, lived experience and public policy. Her sharp analytical insights will enrich our understanding of the history of women in modern Germany and the role of marital status in twentieth-century life worldwide.

Table of contents: 

Part I: Women, Marriage, and the State

The Meaning of Marital Status in Twentieth-Century Germany
Marriage, Motherhood, and the Nazi Social Order
War, Widowhood, and Welfare

Part II: The Postwar Reconstruction of Marital Status
4. The Challenges of Single Life in the Postwar Period
5. Divorce, Remarriage, and the Family Law Debate
6. Welfare and the Role of the State in Women’s Lives

Part III: Continuity and Change in Women’s Status
7. Women’s Work and Economic Independence
8. Gender, Law, and Citizenship in Divided Germany
9. The Long Shadow of War on Women’s Lives

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