By Catherine L. Dollard
The first German women's circulation embraced the idea in a demographic surplus of unwed girls, often called the Frauenüberschuß, as a important leitmotif within the crusade for reform. Proponents of the feminine surplus held that the advances of and urbanization had disappointed conventional marriage styles and left too many bourgeois ladies with out a husband. This e-book explores the ways that the geographical regions of literature, sexology, demography, socialism, and feminine activism addressed the perceived plight of unwed ladies. Case stories of reformers, together with Lily Braun, Ruth Bré, Elisabeth Gnauck-Kühne, Helene Lange, Alice Salomon, Helene Stöcker, and Clara Zetkin, show the expansive effect of the discourse surrounding a feminine surfeit. through combining the techniques of cultural, social, and gender background, the excess lady presents the 1st sustained research of the ways that imperial Germans conceptualized nervousness approximately girl marital prestige as either a product and a mirrored image of adjusting times.
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