| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.2

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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Julia Sneeringer. Winning Women's Votes. Propaganda and Politics in Weimar Germany. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2002. Pp. xi, 365. Cloth $65.00, paper $27.50.

Scholars of modern Germany continue to be intrigued by the surge of political, social, and cultural modernity and the violent reactions against it that characterized the Weimar Republic. Women were at the heart of the controversies surrounding modernity. Newly enfranchised after the revolution of November 1918 and constituting more than half of the German electorate, women were recognized as a pivotal group but also viewed with suspicion as a volatile constituency. The "New Woman" of the mid-1920s, with her slim body and short hair, represented female emancipation, but she also triggered fears of moral and cultural decay. Traditional accounts of Weimar's political history have largely ignored the role of women, and more recent studies of the debates about women's rights and duties have not examined their impact on the system of party politics. Combining traditional and feminist approaches, Julia Sneeringer's pioneering work analyzes how Weimar's leading political parties addressed women and their concerns in national election campaigns from 1919 to 1932. Drawing mainly on campaign materials, newspapers, and internal party documents, Sneeringer describes the discourse each party established with respect to female voters. These discourses were marked by a basic conservatism. Sneeringer argues convincingly that the parties were most successful in getting women's votes when they placed great emphasis on issues of culture, religion, and welfare but shied away from ambitious programs of emancipation. . . .

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