Mobilizing Women for War
：German and American Propaganda, 1939-1945
( Princeton Legacy Library )
Publication subTitle ：German and American Propaganda, 1939-1945
Publication series ：Princeton Legacy Library
Author： Rupp Leila J.;;;
Publisher： Princeton University Press
Publication year： 2015
E-ISBN: 9781400870974
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691046495
Subject： D44 妇女运动与组织
Keyword： 工人、农民、青年、妇女运动与组织,世界军事
Language： ENG
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Description
To discover how war can affect the status of women in industrial countries, Leila Rupp examines mobilization propaganda directed at women in Nazi Germany and the United States. Her book explores the relationship between ideology and policy, challenging the idea that wars improve the status of women by bringing them into new areas of activity.
Using fresh sources for both Germany and the United States, Professor Rupp considers the images of women before and during the war, the role of propaganda in securing their support, and the ideal of feminine behavior in each country. Her analysis shows that propaganda was more intensive in the United States than in Germany, and that it figured in the success of American mobilization and the failure of the German campaign to enlist women's participation. The most important function of propaganda, however, consisted in adapting popular conceptions to economic need. The author finds that public images of women can adjust to wartime priorities without threatening traditional assumptions about social roles. The mode of adaptation, she suggests, helps to explain the lack of change in women's status in postwar society. Far-reaching in its implications for feminist studies, this book offers a new and fruitful approach to the social, economic, and political history of Germany and the United States.
Originally published in 1978.
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