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Sweeping the German nation : domesticity and national identity in Germany, 1870-1945 /
"Is cleanliness next to Germanness, as some 19th century nationalists insisted? This book explores the relationship between gender roles, domesticity, and German national identity between 1870 and 1945. After German unification, approaches to household management that had originally emerged amo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Is cleanliness next to Germanness, as some 19th century nationalists insisted? This book explores the relationship between gender roles, domesticity, and German national identity between 1870 and 1945. After German unification, approaches to household management that had originally emerged among the bourgeoisie became central to German national identity by 1914. Thrift, order, and extreme cleanliness, along with particular domestic markers (such as the linen cabinet) and holiday customs, were used by many Germans to define the distinctions between themselves and neighbouring cultures." "After 1933, this idealized notion of domestic Germanness was racialised and incorporated into an array of Nazi social politics. In occupied Eastern Europe during World War II Nazi women's groups used these approaches to household management in their attempts to 'Germanize' Eastern European women who were part of a large-scale project of population resettlement and ethnic cleansing."--Jacket. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 247 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-243) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511250354 0511250355 0521841135 9780521841139 0511249845 9780511249846 0511249314 9780511249310 1280703253 9781280703256 1107162971 9781107162976 9780511248764 0511248768 0511318960 9780511318962 |
| Acceso: | Electronic resource (access conditions). |