Mothers, Warriors, Guardians of the Soul
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Mothers, Warriors, Guardians of the Soul

Female Discourse in National Socialism 1924 - 1934

  1. 350 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Mothers, Warriors, Guardians of the Soul

Female Discourse in National Socialism 1924 - 1934

About this book

This study shows that women involved in National Socialism in the years 1924 - 1934 developed and shaped a recognizable discourse which communicated and reflected their position and status within the NS movement.

The analysis is based on a variety of text-types produced by members of NS women's organisations, and includes official correspondence, circulars, reports, pamphlets, monographs and articles from NS women's journals. It draws upon several areas of linguistic theory, including feminist linguistics, semantics, pragmatics and discourse analysis, and the salient features identified in the female discourse are placed within a sociolinguistic framework.

While previous research into the language of the NS-system has largely ignored the possibility of a cohesive female discourse, the study supports the idea that this discourse was dynamic, and at times heterogeneous, whilst also displaying many self-defining and self-referential features. It is characterised by its ambiguities and apparent contradictions, which expresses separateness and difference, yet also solidarity with the NSDAP.

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Table of contents

  1. 1 Introduction: existence of a linguistic Frauenwelt?
  2. 1.1 Preliminary observations
  3. 1.2 Outline of methodology : historical and political discourses
  4. 1.3 Outline of semantic theories
  5. 1.4 Female discourse: a theoretical framework
  6. 1.5 Historical background
  7. 1.6 Linguistic background to National Socialist discourse
  8. 1.7 Linguistic background to female discourse in National Socialism
  9. 2 Morpho-semantic analysis
  10. 2.1 Aspects of word-formation in female discourse
  11. 2.2 Frau
  12. 2.3 Mutter
  13. 2.4 Use of the -in suffix
  14. 2.5 Summary of word-formation in female discourse
  15. 3 Lexico-semantic analysis
  16. 3.1 Thematic Categories
  17. 3.2 Women and the NSDAP
  18. 3.3 Women and the Volksgemeinschaft
  19. 3.4 Women and Motherhood, Women and Work
  20. 4 Textual analysis
  21. 4.1 Power, status and influence in female correspondence
  22. 4.2 Historical and theoretical background
  23. 4.3 Women’s correspondence in National Socialism: general characteristics
  24. 4.4 Analysis of six letters
  25. 4.5 Letters from women to men
  26. 4.6 Letters from women to women
  27. 4.7 Summary
  28. 5 Conclusion
  29. Appendix I: Letterheads
  30. Appendix II: Women’s Letters
  31. List of Abbreviations
  32. Bibliography
  33. Index