Body, Femininity and Nationalism: Girls in the German Youth Movement 1900–1934

“This welcome monograph sheds considerable light on the machinations of female youth organizations prior to the Nazi era… highly recommended.” — A.C. Stanley, Choice, July 2008

“…her [de Ras) study presents new and very valuabe insight into girls’ participation in the youth movement and their construction of a ‘girls’ culture’ in the first three decades of the twentieth century; furthermore, her project contributes to a better understanding of how young women’s participation in the youth movement later influenced women’s role in the construction of German nationalism under the National Socialists.” — Julie Koser, Focus on German Studies

De Ras’s book provides a useful and important examination of the formation and shaping of gender in the German youth movement that will be of great interest to scholars and students of modern German History – Lisa Pine, London South Bank University, UK

Dr. Marion E.P. de Ras is a Faculty member in the Education Department at the University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam and an affiliated member of the Cornelia Goethe Center at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. She is also a freelance academic and writer. She can be reached at m.de.ras@hva.nl and at http://hva.academia.edu/MarionEPdeRas.