Family in Modern Germany

Lisa Pine is Reader in History at London South Bank University, UK. She is the editor of Life and Times in Nazi Germany (2016) and the author of Education in Nazi Germany (2010), Hitler’s “National Community”: Society and Culture in Nazi Germany (2nd edition, 2017) and Nazi Family Policy, 1933-1945 (1997).

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction, Lisa Pine, London South Bank University, UK1. The Family in Imperial Germany, Gunilla Budde, Carl von Ossietzky University, Germany2. Rejuvenating the Family: The Struggle between Tradition and Modernity in Weimar Germany, Michelle Mouton, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, USA3. The 'Germ Cell of the Nation': The Family in the Third Reich, Lisa Pine, London South Bank University, UK4. Postwar Paternalism and Modern Mothers: Changing Families in 1950s West Germany, Alexandria N. Ruble, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA5. Continuities and Ruptures: Women's Agency and the West German Family, 1960s-1980s, Sarah E. Summers, University of Guelph, Canada6. Vanguard of the Working Mother: The East German Family between Continuity and Change, Donna Harsch, Carnegie Mellon University, USA7. German Family Policy since Reunification, Sigrid Leitner, University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, GermanyConclusion, Lisa Pine, London South Bank University, UKSelect BibliographyIndex

This book provides an excellent overview of the development of the Family in Modern Germany, from the German Empire to the present. It will be of great use to students.