Women, Nazis, and universities : female university students in the Third Reich, 1933-1945 / Jacques R. Pauwels.

"Based on official government documents and extensive secondary literature, this book revises several old assumptions on the periods of peace and war. For the 1930s, Pauwels demonstrates that declining female university enrollments were caused neither by Nazi rhetoric nor antifeminist campaigns...

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Main Author: Pauwels, Jacques R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1984.
Series:Contributions in women's studies ; no. 50.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. National Socialism and women in higher education : theory, policy, consequences
  • National Socialism and the academic aspirations of German women : theoretical foundations
  • Nazi campaign against female academic aspirations, 1933-1935
  • Change in Nazi attitude towards women university students, 1935-1939
  • Decline of women's enrollments at the German universities, 1933-1939 : result of Nazi antifeminism?
  • pt. 2. Women university students in the Nazi "State of men"
  • Women's academic franchise in danger : the reaction of German women and women students
  • "Working community of National Socialist women students"
  • National Socialist performance of women university students
  • pt. 3. Women university students and the Second World War
  • War : catalyst of an unprecedented academic emancipation of German women
  • German women university students, the ANSt, and the fiasco of the "War Service" scheme
  • Supply crisis in the academic professions and the Nazi attitude towards women's academic aspirations during the war
  • Conclusion.