Women Doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-5647-1 (ISBN)
Examining how German women physicians gained a foothold in the medical profession during the Weimar and Nazi periods, Women Doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany reveals the continuity in rhetoric, strategy, and tactics of female doctors who worked under both regimes. Melissa Kravetz explains how and why women occupied particular fields within the medical profession, how they presented themselves in their professional writing, and how they reconciled their medical perspectives with their views of the Weimar and later the Nazi state.
Focusing primarily on those women who were members of the Bund Deutscher Ärztinnen (League of German Female Physicians or BDÄ), this study shows that female physicians used maternalist and, to a lesser extent, eugenic arguments to make a case for their presence in particular medical spaces. They emphasized gender difference to claim that they were better suited than male practitioners to care for women and children in a range of new medical spaces. During the Weimar Republic, they laid claim to marriage counselling centres, school health reform, and the movements against alcoholism, venereal disease, and prostitution. In the Nazi period, they emphasized their importance to the Bund Deutscher Mädels (League of German Girls), the Reichsmütterdienst (Reich Mothers’ Service), and breast milk collection efforts. Women doctors also tried to instil middle-class values into their working-class patients while fashioning themselves as advocates for lower-class women.
Melissa Kravetz is an associate professor of history and co-chair of women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Longwood University.
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Promoting Marriage, Motherhood, Eugenics, and Comprehensive Healthcare in Marriage Counselling Centres
2. Preparing Girls for Motherhood: School Doctors, Youth Welfare, and the Reform of Girls’ Physical Education
3. Fighting the Vices That Threatened Women and Children: Sex, Alcohol, and Disease
4. Building the Volksgemeinschaft and Supporting Racial Hygiene in the Bund Deutscher Mädel and Reichsmütterdienst
5. Advocating Healthy Infant Nutrition Practices through Breast Milk Collection: Maternal Guardians on the Home Front
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.10.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | German and European Studies |
| Zusatzinfo | 10 b&w illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Toronto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 226 mm |
| Gewicht | 460 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4875-5647-0 / 1487556470 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-5647-1 / 9781487556471 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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