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Examining how German women physicians gained a foothold in the
medical profession during the Weimar and Nazi periods, Women
Doctors in Weimar and Nazi Germany reveals the continuity in
rhetoric, strategy, and tactics of female doctors who worked under
both regimes. Melissa Kravetz explains how and why women occupied
particular fields within the medical profession, how they presented
themselves in their professional writing, and how they reconciled
their medical perspectives with their views of the Weimar and later
the Nazi state. Focusing primarily on those women who were members
of the Bund Deutscher AErztinnen (League of German Female
Physicians or BDAE), this study shows that female physicians used
maternalist and, to a lesser extent, eugenic arguments to make a
case for their presence in particular medical spaces. They
emphasized gender difference to claim that they were better suited
than male practitioners to care for women and children in a range
of new medical spaces. During the Weimar Republic, they laid claim
to marriage counselling centres, school health reform, and the
movements against alcoholism, venereal disease, and prostitution.
In the Nazi period, they emphasized their importance to the Bund
Deutscher Madels (League of German Girls), the Reichsmutterdienst
(Reich Mothers' Service), and breast milk collection efforts. Women
doctors also tried to instil middle-class values into their
working-class patients while fashioning themselves as advocates for
lower-class women.
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