Gender relations in German history : power, agency, and experience from the sixteenth to the twentieth century / edited by Lynn Abrams and Elizabeth Harvey.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-255) and index.

Introduction : gender and gender relations in German history / Lynn Abrams and Elizabeth Harvey -- Gender norms and their enforcement in early modern Germany / Heide Wunder -- The public body : policing abortion in early modern Germany / Ulinka Rublack -- Religious dissent and the roots of German feminism / Dagmar Herzog -- Companionship and conflict : the negotiation of marriage relations in the nineteenth century / Lynn Abrams -- The sick warrior's sister : nursing during the First World War / Regina Schulte -- Wise women, wise men and abortion in the Weimar Republic : gender, class and medicine / Cornelie Usborne -- National socialist policies towards female homosexuality / Claudia Schoppmann -- Driving the message home : Nazi propaganda in the private sphere / Kate Lacey -- Labours of consumption : gendered consumers in post-war Eas and West German reconstruction / Katherine Pence.