Surplus Woman: Unmarried in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918 (30) (Monographs in German History, 30)

by Catherine L. Dollard (Author)

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  2009

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  The first German women's movement embraced the belief in a demographic surplus of unwed women, known as the FrauenuberschuA , as a central leitmotif in the campaign for reform. Proponents of the female surplus held that the advances of industry and urbanization had upset traditional marriage patterns...