“You know that the National Socialist movement is the only party that keeps women out of daily politics. This arouses bitter criticism and hostility, all of it very unjustified. We have kept women out of the parliamentary-democratic intrigues of the past fourteen years in Germany not because we do not respect them, but because we respect them too much. We do not see the woman as inferior, but rather as having a different mission, a different value, than that of the man. Therefore, we believed that the German woman, who more than any other in the world is a woman in the best sense of the word, should use her strength and abilities in other areas than the man.”(Josef Goebbels on German Womanhood)
After reading the speech that parroted Adolf Hitler’s …show more content…
This was not a new concept but a term coined in the late nineteenth century by Sarah Grand, in the New Aspect of the Woman Question. Merriam-Webster defines as, a woman especially of the late 19th century actively resisting traditional controls and seeking to fill a complete role in the world.
This image perpetuated mostly by male fantasy was of modern femininity and the depiction of what being a women meant changed drastically during the late 1920s to early 1930s. The trend was towards a more serious, chaste woman. Characteristics of the New Woman archetype included being glamorous and sexy, financially independent, technologically inclined while simultaneously excelling at domestic duties (housework and motherhood). (Hung, 2015, page …show more content…
Hans, 2014, page 2-3). In further exploration of Weimar films the ill fates of the female leads end in destitution, murder or suicide. A classic silent film which debuted in 1929, Pandora’s Box (Hans, 2014, page 27) whose main character Lulu, punished for her coquettish ways by execution in a brutal manner. Louise Brooks the same actress plays Thymian in Diary of a Lost Girl, (Hans, 2014, page 27) here she exemplifies how a woman can be both innocent and tortured. From being impregnated by her father’s assistant to being shunned and sent to a reform school. After escaping with another patient the women end up in a bordello. (Ebert, 2012, Movie
After reading the speech that parroted Adolf Hitler’s …show more content…
This was not a new concept but a term coined in the late nineteenth century by Sarah Grand, in the New Aspect of the Woman Question. Merriam-Webster defines as, a woman especially of the late 19th century actively resisting traditional controls and seeking to fill a complete role in the world.
This image perpetuated mostly by male fantasy was of modern femininity and the depiction of what being a women meant changed drastically during the late 1920s to early 1930s. The trend was towards a more serious, chaste woman. Characteristics of the New Woman archetype included being glamorous and sexy, financially independent, technologically inclined while simultaneously excelling at domestic duties (housework and motherhood). (Hung, 2015, page …show more content…
Hans, 2014, page 2-3). In further exploration of Weimar films the ill fates of the female leads end in destitution, murder or suicide. A classic silent film which debuted in 1929, Pandora’s Box (Hans, 2014, page 27) whose main character Lulu, punished for her coquettish ways by execution in a brutal manner. Louise Brooks the same actress plays Thymian in Diary of a Lost Girl, (Hans, 2014, page 27) here she exemplifies how a woman can be both innocent and tortured. From being impregnated by her father’s assistant to being shunned and sent to a reform school. After escaping with another patient the women end up in a bordello. (Ebert, 2012, Movie