LEADER 03967cam a2200433Ia 4500001 23543 005 20240621161655.0 008 940601s1992 xx rb 000 0 eng d 035 ocm30530490 035 USHOM 33880 035 23543 043 e-gx--- 049 LHMA 040 IUP |beng |erda |cIUP |dOCL 090 HQ1236.5.G3 |bT76 1992a 100 1 Trosino, Diane. 245 10 Anti-feminism in Germany 1912-1920 : |bthe German League for the Prevention of Women's Emancipation / |cby Diane Trosino. 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] : |b[publisher not identified], |c1992. 300 xi, 252 leaves ; |c28 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 502 Thesis (Ph. D.)--Claremont Graduate School, 1992. 504 Includes bibliographical references (leaves 213-230) 520 This study examines the reactionary and organized opposition to feminism in Germany in The German League for the Prevention of Women's Emancipation, or the Anti-League, as the feminists dubbed it. A detailed account of the League's activities from its beginnings in 1912 until its dissolution in 1920 is presented. Based on a reconstructed membership list, the study offers a demographic analysis of Anti-League members and officers including an evaluation of the League's geographic distribution and the extent of women's participation in it. The nationalist League and its subsidiary, the Christian-National Group Against Women's Emancipation, attempted to stem the tide of what it called the "radical" women's movement. Its main targets were the bourgeois Federation of German Women's Associations--despite its moderate reputation--and the conservative German-Evangelical Women's League. Anti-League arguments against women's emancipation were based not on an explicitly misogynist ideology, but on "natural gender differences." Under the motto, "genuine manliness for men; genuine femininity for women," the League strove to restore German society to a state in which sex roles were highly differentiated and the ideal German woman was revered. Using mass propaganda tactics, Anti-League members proclaimed the detrimental effects that educated, working, and politicized women would have on the German society and the German race. Their activities centered around preventing coeducation, limiting female employment to positions "commensurate to the female nature," preventing women's suffrage on any level, maintaining teacher celibacy, and ensuring that women could not hold positions of authority over men in the work force. The League claimed to be nonpartisan, but clearly had a conservative political agenda. It was a part of the national opposition which used racist and nationalist rhetoric. Unlike its primarily anti-suffrage British and American counterparts, the League, first subtly, then overtly expressed anti-socialism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Catholicism. This study provides insight into the opposition faced by the women's movement--an opposition which surfaced again in Germany in a more radical form in the 1930's. 530 Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM. 533 Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services, |d1993. |e22 cm. 590 Dissertations and Theses 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 610 20 Deutsche Bund zur Bekämpfung der Frauenemanzipation |xHistory. 650 0 Women's rights |zGermany |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Women |xSuffrage |zGermany. 650 7 Women. |2homoit 650 7 Womyn. |2homoit 856 41 |uhttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=744379631&sid=16&Fmt=6&clientId=54617&RQT=309&VName=PQD |zElectronic version from ProQuest 956 41 |uhttp://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib23543/9201927.pdf |zHosted by USHMM. 852 0 |bstacks |hHQ1236.5.G3 T76 1992a 852 |bwww 852 |bebook