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Women, Nazis, and universities : female university students in the Third Reich, 1933-1945
- Title
- Women, Nazis, and universities : female university students in the Third Reich, 1933-1945 / Jacques R. Pauwels.
- Author
- Pauwels, Jacques R.
- Publication
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1984.
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Details
- Description
- xv, 206 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Based on official government documents and extensive secondary literature, this book revises several old assumptions on the periods of peace and war. For the 1930s, Pauwels demonstrates that declining female university enrollments were caused neither by Nazi rhetoric nor antifeminist campaigns but by the drastic drop in university-age population and the Depression. Despite their alleged egalitarianism, Nazi social and economic policies favored the access of middle- and upper-class women to higher education. The Third Reich was unsuccessful in creating an auxiliary female vanguard to serve in its leadership or welfare programs and failed to stop women from flocking into law, medicine, and engineering. It was WWII, not Nazism, that gave German women a dramatic improvement in higher education; increased numbers of women for a short time achieved unprecedented freedom and professional advancement though at war's end, these dramatic gains were lost"--Choice.
- Series Statement
- Contributions in women's studies, 0147-104X ; no. 50
- Uniform Title
- Contributions in women's studies ; no. 50.
- Subject
- BMBF-Statusseminar
- Geschichte 1933-1945
- National socialism and education
- Women > Education (Higher) > History. > Germany
- Women college students > Germany > History
- Women college students
- Women > Education (Higher)
- Drittes Reich
- Studentin
- Vrouwen
- Studenten
- Women > Education (Higher) > History > Germany > 1933-1945
- Women college teachers > Germany > History > 1933-1945
- Germany
- Deutschland
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [183]-198.
- Contents
- pt. 1. National Socialism and women in higher education : theory, policy, consequences -- National Socialism and the academic aspirations of German women : theoretical foundations -- Nazi campaign against female academic aspirations, 1933-1935 -- Change in Nazi attitude towards women university students, 1935-1939 -- Decline of women's enrollments at the German universities, 1933-1939 : result of Nazi antifeminism? -- pt. 2. Women university students in the Nazi "State of men" -- Women's academic franchise in danger : the reaction of German women and women students -- "Working community of National Socialist women students" -- National Socialist performance of women university students -- pt. 3. Women university students and the Second World War -- War : catalyst of an unprecedented academic emancipation of German women -- German women university students, the ANSt, and the fiasco of the "War Service" scheme -- Supply crisis in the academic professions and the Nazi attitude towards women's academic aspirations during the war -- Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 0313242038
- 9780313242038
- LCCN
- 83020161
- OCLC
- ocm10071255
- 10071255
- SCSB-616141
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library