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Book Mothering the Fatherland

    Book Details:
  • Author : George Faithful
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2014-04-03
  • ISBN : 0199363471
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Mothering the Fatherland written by George Faithful and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should one respond, personally or theologically, to genocide committed on one's behalf? After the Allied bombing of Darmstadt, Germany, in 1944, some Lutheran young women perceived their city's destruction as an expression of God's wrath-a punishment for Hitler's murder of six million Jews, purportedly on behalf of the German people. George Faithful tells the story of a number of these young women, who formed the Ecumenical Sisterhood of Mary in 1947 in order to embrace lives of radical repentance for the sins of the German people against God and against the Jews. Under Mother Basilea Schlink, the sisters embraced an ideology of collective national guilt. According to Schlink, a handful of true Christians were called to lead their nation in repentance, interceding and making spiritual sacrifices as priests on its behalf and saving it from looming destruction. Schlink explained that these ideas were rooted in her reading of the Hebrew Bible; in fact, Faithful discovers, they also bore the influence of German nationalism. Schlink's vision resulted in penitential practices that dominated the life of her community. While the women of the sisterhood were subject to each other, they elevated themselves and their spiritual authority above that of any male leaders. They offered female and gender-neutral paradigms of self-sacrifice as normative for all Christians. Mothering the Fatherland shows how the sisters overturned German Protestant norms for gender roles, communal life, and nationalism in their pursuit of redemption.

Book Mothering the Fatherland

    Book Details:
  • Author : George Faithful
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 0199363463
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Mothering the Fatherland written by George Faithful and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Faithful tells the story of a group of young Lutheran women who formed the Ecumenical Sisterhood of Mary in 1947 in order to advocate collective national guilt for the sins of the German people (Volk) against God and against the Jews.

Book Mothers in the fatherland

Download or read book Mothers in the fatherland written by Claudia Koonz and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mothers in the Fatherland

Download or read book Mothers in the Fatherland written by Claudia Koonz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From extensive research, including a remarkable interview with the unrepentant chief of Hitler’s Women’s Bureau, this book traces the roles played by women – as followers, victims and resisters – in the rise of Nazism. Originally publishing in 1987, it is an important contribution to the understanding of women’s status, culpability, resistance and victimisation at all levels of German society, and a record of astonishing ironies and paradoxical morality, of compromise and courage, of submission and survival.

Book Mothering the Fatherland

Download or read book Mothering the Fatherland written by Sarah Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Knitting  Baking and Mothering for the Fatherland

Download or read book Knitting Baking and Mothering for the Fatherland written by Heidemarie Wawrzyn and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2015 in the subject History of Germany - National Socialism, World War II, , course: National Socialist German Women ́s League Abroad, language: English, abstract: Beiträge zu Feminismus, Antisemitismus und Nationalsozialismus im 19./20. Jahrhundert: Vol. 9. National Socialist groups of the German Women's League Abroad existed in many European and non-European countries, such as Guatemala, Chile, Brazil, Italy, Sweden, Poland, Hungary, Japan, the British Mandate of Palestine and many more. Founded in August 1933, the new overseas organization was a counterpart to the NS Women's League in Germany with the declared goal to unite all Nazi women abroad who were ready to knit, bake and mother for the German ethnic community. In 1941, the new league consisted of more than 300 local group leaders and nearly 3,000 assistants and had organized more than 35,000 meetings and gatherings. Researchers and readers who are interested in the worldwide propagation of German National Socialism can easily find various articles about the body's activity abroad. However, what is still lacking is an introductory, general summary of the organization. To fill this academic void, the book offers an overview of the founding and development of the association as well as details of its program and conceptualization. The second part of the study seeks to clearly and colorfully depict the establishment, activities and events of the German Women's League Abroad in the British Mandate of Palestine, based on documents and photos from archives in Germany and Israel.

Book And Their Mothers Wept

Download or read book And Their Mothers Wept written by Frank Ellis and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Is the Fatherland Really a Motherland

Download or read book Is the Fatherland Really a Motherland written by Ann Anagnost and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Motherland

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ann McFerran
  • Publisher : Virago Press
  • Release : 1999-03
  • ISBN : 9781860495311
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Motherland written by Ann McFerran and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 1999-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has never been a generation of high-flying mothers like today's who have been so noisy about mothering, so anxious to explain their ambitions to combine work and nurturing, and so agonisingly articulate into the bargain. Earlier generations just got on with it (even if struggling with 'the boredom which has no name') and future generations will certainly do it differently. Ann McFerran has interviewed a dozen women - and their mothers and their daughters - to create a frank and revealing account how today's mothers have changed mothering and parenting over the last half century. Through the lens of some of Britain's most famous working mothers, and their daughters - including Tara Fitzgerald, Lynne Franks, Sheila Hancock, Julie Myerson, Anita Roddick, Meera Syal, Rachel Whiteread - we see experiences that are horribly and wonderfully familiar to us all.

Book Motherhood for the Fatherland

Download or read book Motherhood for the Fatherland written by Nancy Vedder-Shults and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Politics of Mothering

Download or read book Politics of Mothering written by Obioma Nnaemeka and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is a study of African literature framed by the central, and multi-faceted, idea of 'mother' - motherland, mothertongue, motherwit, motherhood, mothering - looking at the paradoxical location of (m)other as both central and marginal. Whilst the volume stands as a sustained feminist analysis, it engages feminist theory itself by showing how issues in feminism are, in African literature, recast in different and complex ways.

Book Domicile and Diaspora

Download or read book Domicile and Diaspora written by Alison Blunt and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domicile and Diaspora investigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian independence in 1947. The first book to study the Anglo-Indian community past and present, in India, Britain and Australia. The first book by a geographer to focus on a community of mixed descent. Investigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian independence in 1947. Draws on interviews and focus groups with over 150 Anglo-Indians, as well as archival research. Makes a distinctive contribution to debates about home, identity, hybridity, migration and diaspora.

Book Narrative Performances of Mothering in South Asian Diasporic Fiction

Download or read book Narrative Performances of Mothering in South Asian Diasporic Fiction written by Sarah Knor and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining a range of South Asian Anglophone diasporic fiction and poetry, this monograph opens a new dialogue between diaspora studies and gender studies. It shows how discourses of diaspora benefit from re-examining their own critical relation to concepts of the maternal and the motherland. Rather than considering maternity as a fixed or naturally given category, it challenges essentialist conceptions and explores mothering as a performative practice which actively produces discursive meaning. This innovative approach also involves an investigation of central metaphors in nationalist and diasporic rhetorics, bringing critical attention to the strategies they employ and the unique aesthetic forms they produce.

Book The Novels of Josefina Aldecoa

Download or read book The Novels of Josefina Aldecoa written by Nuala Kenny and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive analysis of the novels of prominent contemporary Spanish writer and educator Josefina Aldecoa. Josefina Aldecoa, in her treatment of themes such as a woman's place in society under and after dictatorship, mother-daughter relationships, war, and memory, confirmed her unique role as a contemporary novelist concerned with women's identity in Spain and as a writer of the mid-century generation ('los niños de la guerra'). The first volume of her trilogy, Historia de una maestra, was one of the earliest narratives of historical memory to beproduced in Spain. In this sense, Aldecoa's work anticipated new developments in gender studies, such as the intersection of feminist concerns and cultural memory. This book offers a comprehensive examination of Aldecoa's trajectory as a novelist, from La enredadera to Hermanas, centring on her primary preoccupations of gender and memory, arguing that Aldecoa's fiction offers a new, more complex understanding of women's identity than previously understood. The work combines the two dominating theoretical components of feminism and cultural memory with close textual analysis of Aldecoa's narratives. Her novels highlight the importance of the details of women's daily experiences and struggles throughout the twentieth century, a period of significant socio-political upheaval and change in Spain's history. NUALA KENNY teaches Spanish at the National University of Maynooth, Ireland.

Book Patriotism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dr Aleksandar Pavkovic
  • Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
  • Release : 2013-03-28
  • ISBN : 140949862X
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Patriotism written by Dr Aleksandar Pavkovic and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic and cultural globalization and the worldwide threat of terrorism have contributed to the resurgence of patriotic loyalty in many parts of the world and made the issues it raises highly topical. This collection of new essays by philosophers and political theorists engages with a wide range of conceptual, moral and political questions raised by the current revival of patriotism. It displays both similarities and differences between patriotism and nationalism, and considers the proposal of Habermas and others to disconnect the two. Ideal as a supplementary reader for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in politics/political science especially in political theory, contemporary political ideologies and nationalism and in philosophy for courses on applied ethics and political philosophy.

Book Shakespeare s Sisters

Download or read book Shakespeare s Sisters written by Sandra M. Gilbert and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Right Wing Women in Chile

Download or read book Right Wing Women in Chile written by Margaret Power and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: