This fascinating book examines the position of women under the Nazis. Policies concerning women ultimately stemmed from the Party's view that the German birth rate must be dramatically raised.

Introduction 1. Emancipation and Reaction after the Great War 2. Marriage and Motherhood 3. Birth Control and Unmarried Motherhood 4. Women's Employment: Expansion and Opposition 5. Women's Employment: Encouragement and Resistance 6. Girl's Senior Schooling in the 1930s 7. Nazi Policy towards Girl Students 8. Progress, Prejudice and Purge in the Professions 9. Coordination and Consolidation in the Professions 10. Women and German Society in the 1930s