Erotic Fraternization: The Legend of German Women's Quick Surrender
Title | Erotic Fraternization: The Legend of German Women's Quick Surrender |
Publication Type | Book Chapter |
Year of Publication | 2002 |
Authors | Nieden, Susanne zur |
Editor | Hagemann, Karen, and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum |
Book Title | Home/Front: The Military, War, and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany |
Pagination | 297-310 |
Publisher | Berg |
City | Oxford and New York |
Abstract | In the book chatper "Erotic Fraternization: The Legend of German Women's Quick Surrender," in the edited volume Home/Front: The Military, War, and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany, the author Susanne zur Nieden examines a myth of female fraternization with the American occupation. Contrasting the supposedly quick surrender of women with the long years that men battled at the front became a coping mechanism that shifted the blame for moral decay away from the soldiers. According to the author, the stab in the back of World War I was now "reformulated as the battle of the sexes" that showed once again that "there had been a heroic battle--lost only because the enemy was stronger." Women on the home front, rather than politicians, now served as scapegoats for male wounded pride. |
URL | https://www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com/encyclopedia?docid=b-9781350048379 |
Original Publication | Heimat-Front: Militär und Geschlechterverhältnisse im Zeitalter der Weltkriege |
Reprint Edition | 2004 |
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