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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Ute Planert. Antifeminismus im Kaiserreich: Diskurs, soziale Formation und politische Mentalität. (Kritische Studien zur Geschichtswissenschaft, number 124.) Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht. 1998. Pp. 447. DM 84.

The antifeminist movement that emerged in Wilhelmine Germany, Ute Planert argues, can be regarded as a "proto-fascist movement." Her study documents this claim through analysis of the publications of the main pertinent organization—the Bund zur Bekämpfung der Frauenemanzipation (Union to Combat Female Emancipation)—as well as those of a wide range of other allied or sympathetic organizations such as male professional organizations. The publications she examines range from minor journals of professional organizations through the widely read Preussische Jahrbücher. 1

Planert tracks the lineage of antifeminism from its origins in the hegemonic notions of gender polarity that infused post-Enlightenment German middle-class society and institutions through its linkages with nationalism, anti-Semitism, and conservative Protestant orthodoxy in the 1890s. She carries her analysis into the Weimar era, when continuities in both ideology and personnel linked Wilhelmine antifeminism with völkisch nationalism and eventually fascism. She documents the ideological claims, organizational networks, and political resonances that linked racial hygiene, nationalism, and antifeminism during the Wilhelmine era, the wartime crisis, and in Weimar Germany. . . .

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