Nancy R. Reagin is Professor of History and Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Pace University, New York. She received her PhD from The Johns Hopkins University. She previously taught at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of A German Women's Movement: Class and Gender in Hanover, 1880 1933 (1995) and is co-editor of The Heimat Abroad: The Boundaries of Germanness (2005). She has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Deutscher Akademischer Austasuchdienst.

Zusammenfassung
German housekeepers have an international reputation characterized by thrift, order, and extreme cleanliness. But where did this stereotype come from, and what is its history? This book explores how Germans defined and developed a particular style of domesticity in the late nineteenth century, and how it became crucial to German national identity.

Inhalt

The habitus of domesticity; 2. Domesticity and German national character; 3. The politicization of housework; 4. Domesticity and Volksgemeinschaft; 5. Ersatz, whole grain, or homemade: Autarkic households and the four year plan; 6. Domesticity and 'Germanization' in occupied Poland.