Description
Book SynopsisExplores the 19th-century assumption that the advancement of a society could be measured by its treatment of women. This book shows how race was an additional - and more concealed - factor embedded in the history, politics, and culture of both German feminism and German colonialism from the late 19th century to the Third Reich.
Trade Review“This stunningly original and important book will define scholarly standards and inspire other studies for a long time to come. Wildenthal probes the nexus of German women’s history and colonial politics more deeply, more extensively, and more systematically than any other piece of scholarship I know.”—Leslie A. Adelson, author of
Making Bodies, Making History: Feminism and German Identity“Wildenthal tells an important set of stories about the implication of white women in the modern imperial enterprise. This book will become a must-read for German historians, students of feminism, modern women, and empire and reform movements; as well as a model for how to do colonial women’s history.”—Antoinette Burton, author of
At the Heart of Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late-Victorian BritainTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. Colonial Nursing as the First Realm of Colonialist Women’s Activism, 1885–1907
2. The Feminine Radical Nationalism of Frieda von Bülow
3. A New Colonial Masculinity: The Men’s Debate over “Race Mixing” in the Colonies
4. A New Colonial Femininity: Feminism, Race Purity, and Domesticity, 1898–1914
5. The Woman Citizen and the Lost Colonial Empire in Weimar and Nazi Germany
Epilogue
Appendix: Colonialist and Women’s Organizations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
