domesticity and national identity in Germany, 1870-1945 /
First Statement of Responsibility
Nancy R. Reagin.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Cambridge University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2007.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xii, 247 pages)
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-243) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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The habitus of domesticity -- Domesticity and German national character -- The politicization of housework -- Domesticity and Volksgemeinschaft -- The autarkic household and the Nazi Four-Year Plan -- Domesticity and "Germanization" in occupied Poland.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"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.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Sweeping the German nation.
International Standard Book Number
9780521841139
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Housekeeping-- Germany-- History-- 19th century.
Housekeeping-- Germany-- History-- 20th century.
National characteristics, German-- History-- 19th century.
National characteristics, German-- History-- 20th century.