Journal of Social History
Volume 34, Number 2, Winter 2000
E-ISSN: 1527-1897 Print ISSN: 0022-4529
DOI: 10.1353/jsh.2000.0132
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Bari, Barbara.
What Difference Does a Husband Make?: Women and Marital Status in Nazi and Postwar Germany (review)
Journal of Social History - Volume 34, Number 2, Winter 2000, pp. 465-467
George Mason University Press
Barbara Bari - What Difference Does a Husband Make?: Women and Marital
Status in Nazi and Postwar Germany (review) - Journal of Social History
34:2 Journal of Social History 34.2 (2000) 465-467 Book Review What
Difference Does a Husband Make?: Women and Marital Status in Nazi and
Postwar Germany What Difference Does a Husband Make?: Women and Marital
Status in Nazi and Postwar Germany. By Elizabeth D. Heineman (Berkekey:
University of California Press, 1999. xviii plus 374pp. $45.00). What
Difference Does a Husband Make? rivets the reader's attention from the
book's intriguing title to its dramatic insights into the ideologies
and realities of marital status in Germany from 1933 to 1961. Heineman
offers a powerful analysis of social constructs regarding women that
crosses conventional political chronology and national boundaries. By
focusing on the centrality of the family, the author finds important
linkages among Nazi Germany, the Federal Republic, and the German
Democatic Republic. Political regimes were distinct, but the condition
of marital status was a common denominator for social and public...