When Biology Became Destiny

by Renate Bridenthal

Overview

This collection of essays analyzes the experience of women in Weimar and Nazi Germany—the first a period of crisis and polarization between right and left, and the second a period in which the right triumphed. The history documented in this book provides us with a perspective from which to analyze our own time, for in the history of Weimar and Nazi Germany we see the issues surrounding women, family, and reproduction as powerful mobilizing forces for both right and left.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780853456438
Publisher:	Monthly Review Press
Publication date:	01/01/1984
Series:	New Feminist Library Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	378
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Renate Bridenthal is professor emerita of history at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.

Marion Kaplan is Professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany (OUP), which won the National Jewish Book Award and the German History Prize and
The Jewish Feminist Movement in Germany. She lives in New York City.