The German League for the Prevention of Women's Emancipation (American University Studies Series Xxvii, Feminist Studies)

The German League for the Prevention of Womens Emancipation: Antifeminism in Germany, 19121920 presents a detailed account of the activities of the German League for the Prevention of Womens Emancipation from its beginnings in 1912 to its dissolution in 1920. It underscores the impact of this conservative, keenly nationalist, and increasingly anti-socialist, anti-Semitic, and anti-Catholic organization as it targeted primarily the moderate bourgeois Federation of German Womens Associations and the conservative German-Evangelical Womens League. This book also documents motives for membership, the Leagues philosophy, and the political and social activism used by the League to achieve its aims. Based on a membership list reconstructed by the author, it offers a demographic analysis of League members and officers including an evaluation of the Leagues geographic distribution and the extent of womens participation in it.