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paperback. Condition: Near Fine. DETAILS: sewn PAPERBACK, attractive copy, near fine, but with minor diagonal indentations on first few pages from something heavy on top of the book, and slight scuff on top foredge, book itself probably unused. FREVERT, UTE. Women in German history: from bourgeois emancipation to sexual liberation. Translated by Stuart McKinnon-Evans in association with Terry Bond and Barbara Norden. Oxford ; Washington: Berg, 1990, 346pp., . CONTENTS: I. Human rights and women's duties in the late eighteenth century : bourgeois society and gender. The terms of the debate -- Rural society -- The new Bourgeoisie and new femininity -- The bourgeois marriage -- The scope for freedom -- II. The nineteenth century. The Biedermeier period -- The women's movement of 1848 -- Working women and workers' wives -- Proletarian women and their allies -- Middle-class women and their campaign in imperial Germany -- Bourgeois sexuality, prostitution and marriage -- The social democratic women's movement -- III. The discovery of the 'modern woman' 1914-1933. The First World War : the father of women's emancipation? -- The Weimar Republic -- IV. Between tradition and modernity : women in the Third Reich. National renewal and the woman question -- National socialist policy on women -- Resistance and mass loyalty -- V. Opportunities and restrictions in the new republic : 1945-1988. A fearful peace -- Family or career? -- The politicisation of private life -- Two hundred years of women's history : a critical appraisal. 9780854966851 ISBN 0854966854.…