A case-study of the nature and limitations of pre-First World War 'feminism'.

Bold new essays on Germany's critical Kaiserreich period.

From the emergence of department stores in the late 19th century to the financial disasters of the years following the end of World War I, the history of large-

The first German women's movement embraced the belief in a demographic surplus of unwed women, known as the Frauenberschu, as a central leitmotif in the campaig

During the late nineteenth century the city of Berlin developed such a reputation for lawlessness and sexual licentiousness that it came to be known as the "Who