This book traces the rhetoric that politically active and professionally engaged female physicians used to maintain their presence and strengthen their significance in women’s and children’s medical spaces in Weimar and Nazi Germany.

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Promoting Marriage, Motherhood, Eugenics, and Comprehensive Healthcare in Marriage Counselling Centres

2. Preparing Girls for Motherhood: School Doctors, Youth Welfare, and the Reform of Girls’ Physical Education

3. Fighting the Vices That Threatened Women and Children: Sex, Alcohol, and Disease

4. Building the Volksgemeinschaft and Supporting Racial Hygiene in the Bund Deutscher Mädel and Reichsmütterdienst

5. Advocating Healthy Infant Nutrition Practices through Breast Milk Collection: Maternal Guardians on the Home Front

Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Index