Frauenbewegung und "Judenfrage" : Diskurse um Rasse und Geschlecht nach 1900

Analyzes attitudes of the German feminist movement to social and cultural developments considered threatening to women in their role as nurturers of life; all of these, in one way or another, were perceived as involving Jews. It was claimed that urbanization fosters neuroticism, to which Jews, an urban population, are especially prone; that the prostitution that flourishes in cities is in large part the work of the Jewish white slave trade; that capitalism, pioneered by Jews, stands in opposition to woman consumers; that the solidarity and selfless service of women in wartime is undermined by profiteers, many of them allegedly Jews; and that assimilated German Jews, estranged from their own tradition, threaten German demographic vitality by corrupting values and by setting a trend of low birthrates and small families. Expounds the thought of the Jewish feminist Henriette Fürth (1861-1938), who stressed the positive value of these supposedly negative phenomena. She called on Jews to be proud of their Jewishness, while learning from antisemites what faults they need to correct, and on Jewish mothers to raise their children to cope with the greater demands society would make of them than of the non-Jews. Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Dortmund, 1999. 522 pages ; 21 cm