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Ambraser Heldenbuch, Fol. 149.Kudrun.The early sixteenth century epic collection Ambraser Heldenbuch, one of the most important works of medieval German literature, focuses largely on female characters (with notable texts being its versions of the Nibelungenlied, the Kudrun and the poem Nibelungenklage) and defends the concept of Frauenehre (female honour) against the increasing misogyny of ...
Women in Nazi Germany (Pearson Education, 2001). Stibbe, Matthew. Women in the Third Reich (Arnold, 2003), Wildenthal, Lora. German Women for Empire, 1884–1945 (Duke University Press, 2001) Wunder, Heide, and Thomas J. Dunlap, eds. He is the sun, she is the moon: women in early modern Germany (Harvard University Press, 1998).
The status of women varied, depending on regions and eras. Ottonian sources rate the value of women just as highly as men, except when it comes to physical power. The Saxon tradition assigned women an equal role in the family, which contributed to the powerful roles empresses and abbesses held in the Ottonian era. [1] [2]
Conservative social norms, particularly in West Germany, according to which a child is better off being cared for by the mother, also play a role. While 45% of mothers in East Germany work full ...
The historiography of "ordinary" German women in Nazi Germany has changed significantly over time; studies done just after World War II tended to see them as additional victims of Nazi oppression. However, during the late 20th century, historians began to argue that German women were able to influence the course of the regime and even the war.
Women in Germany earned 18% less on average than men last year, due largely to a levelling-off in earnings after having children and taking part-time work, the Federal Statistics Office said on ...
The women's group Rote Zora (split from the Revolutionäre Zellen) legitimized militance with feminist theory in the 1980s and attacked bioengineering facilities. [60] Some women disillusioned with the racism of Rote Zora but agreeing with its main points moved on to the anti-racist fantifa movement derivative of antifa. [61]
The emancipation of women in Germany was to be challenged in following years. [25] Historians have paid special attention to the efforts by Nazi Germany to reverse the political and social gains that women made before 1933, especially in the relatively liberal Weimar Republic. [26] The role of women in Nazi Germany changed according to ...