Bio-Politics and Gender in the First World War and Weimar Republic

Cornelie Usborne

Bio-Politics and Gender in the First World War and Weimar Republic

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Abstract

Despite attempts to consolidate traditional gender roles in both Kaiserreich and Weimar population policies, gender boundaries became blurred and gender hierarchies disturbed. Essential elite prescriptions for women provided a discursive space for resistance that was vital for their struggles to gain a wider public role and a political voice. This chapter examines how individual women experienced their embodies selves and how they maneuvered the body as an intermediary between self and society and self and partner or husband. However, the trajectory of women's increased agency proved to be always highly contested and often contradictory.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Geschlechter(un)ordnung und Politik in der Weimarer Republik
Editors	Gabriele Metzler, Dirk Schumann
Place of Publication	Bonn
Publisher	Dietz
Pages	109-134
Number of pages	25
ISBN (Print)	978-3-8012-4236-7
Publication status	Published - Dec 2016

Publication series

Name	Schriften der Stiftung Reichspräsident-Friedrich -Ebert-Gedenkstätte
Publisher	Dietz
Volume	16

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Bio-Politics and Gender in the First World War and Weimar Republic. / Usborne, Cornelie.
Geschlechter(un)ordnung und Politik in der Weimarer Republik. ed. / Gabriele Metzler; Dirk Schumann. Bonn: Dietz , 2016. p. 109-134 5 (Schriften der Stiftung Reichspräsident-Friedrich -Ebert-Gedenkstätte; Vol. 16).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

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