Reveals how socialist discourses and psychoanalytic ideas shaped the modern models of motherhood envisioned by women writers working in the Weimar press and literary spheres.

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1: The Psychology and Politics of Mothering: Alice Rühle-Gerstel's Das Frauenproblem der Gegenwart
2: Women's Rights and Responsibilities as Mothers: Perspectives from the Left-Wing Women's Press and Non-Fiction Writing
3: Women's Literary Interventions in Abortion Debates
4: Family and Politics in Communist Didactic Fiction
5: Intergenerational Tensions and New Women as Mothers in Popular Fiction
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index

KATHERINE E. CALVERT is a postdoctoral research fellow at University College Dublin. She holds a doctorate in German Studies from the University of Sheffield.