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Article: What Difference Does a Husband Make?: Women and Marital Status in Nazi and Postwar Germany.(Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- December 1, 2000
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What Difference Does a Husband Make?: Women and Marital Status in Nazi and Postwar Germany, by Elizabeth D. Heineman. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1999. xvii, 374 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth).
Since the mid 1980s, historians on both sides of the Atlantic have turned considerable attention to the subject of women's experience of collapse and ruin following the German defeat in World War Two. Serving as a necessary corollary to the political narratives of capitulation and reconstruction, these works heralded a new era in German feminist historiography and continue to capture public attention. Although indebted to this early historiography, Elizabeth Heineman ...