Contested Femininities

Jennifer Lynn is a Professor of History and Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Center at Montana State University Billings.

List of Figures

Acknowledgments



Introduction: Modern Women in the German Illustrated Press



Chapter 1. Weimar Illustrierten and the Neue Frau: Working Women and Rationalized Housewives

Chapter 2. The Body of the Weimar Modern Woman

Chapter 3. Paid Labor and Motherhood for the Modern Woman in the Third Reich

Chapter 4. Fashionable, Feminine, and Modern: Women’s Bodies in the Third Reich

Chapter 5. Women in Trousers and Girls on the Stage: The Modern German Woman during World War II

Chapter 6. Occupier and Occupied: The Domestic Ideal and Women’s Labor in Rebuilding Germany

Chapter 7. Fashion Models and Beauty Queens: The Body of the Modern Woman as a Site of Recovery

Chapter 8. The Post-War Modern Woman: Labor, the Home, and Female Bodies

Chapter 9. The “Other” Germany: The Modern Woman Across the Border



Conclusion



Bibliography

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