The Surplus Woman

• Auteur principal: Dollard, Catherine L. (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Berghahn Books 2009
• Collection: Monographs in German History
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The first German women's movement embraced the belief in a demographic surplus of unwed women, known as the Frauenüberschuß, as a central leitmotif in the campaign for reform. Proponents of the female surplus held that the advances of industry and urbanization had upset traditional marriage pa...