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Monographs in German History
Volume 1
Osthandel and Ostpolitik: German Foreign Trade Policies in Eastern Europe from Bismarck to Adenauer Mark Spaulding
Volume 2
A Question of Priorities: Democratic Reform and Economic Recovery in Postwar Germany Rebecca Boehling
Volume 3
From Recovery to Catastrophe: Municipal Stabilization and Political Crisis in Weimar Germany Ben Lieberman
Volume 4
Nazism in Central Germany: The Brownshirts in 'Red’ Saxony Christian W. Szejnmann
Volume 5
Citizens and Aliens: Foreigners and the Law in Britain and the German States, 1789–1870 Andreas Fahrmeir
Volume 6
Poems in Steel: National Socialism and the Politics of Inventing from Weimar to Bonn Kees Gispen
Volume 7
“Aryanisation” in Hamburg Frank Bajohr
Volume 8
The Politics of Education: Teachers and School Reform in Weimar Germany Marjorie Lamberti
Volume 9
The Ambivalent Alliance: Konrad Adenauer, the CDU/CSU, and the West, 1949-1966 Ronald J. Granieri
Volume 10
The Price of Exclusion: Ethnicity, National Identity, and the Decline of German Liberalism, 1898-1933 E. Kurlander
Volume 11
Recasting West German Elites: Higher Civil Servants, Business Leaders, and Physicians in Hesse betweenNazism and Democracy, 1945-1955 Michael R. Hayse
Volume 12
The Creation of the Modern German Army: General Walther Reinhardt and the Weimar Republic,1914-1930 William Mulligan
Volume 13
The Crisis of the German Left: The PDS, Stalinism and the Global Economy Peter Thompson
Volume 14
“Conservative Revolutionaries”: Protestant and Catholic Churches in Germany After Radical Political Change in the 1990s Barbara Thériault
Volume 15
Modernizing Bavaria: The Politics of Franz Josef Strauss and the CSU, 1949-1969 Mark Milosch
Volume 16
Sex, Thugs and Rock ‘N’ Roll. Teenage Rebels in Cold-War East Germany Mark Fenemore
Volume 17
Cultures of Abortion in Weimar Germany Cornelie Usborne
Volume 18
Selling the Economic Miracle: Economic Reconstruction and Politics In West Germany, 1949-1957 Mark E. Spicka
Volume 19
Between Tradition and Modernity: Aby Warburg and Art in Hamburg's Public Realm 1896-1918 Mark A. Russell
Volume 20
A Single Communal Faith? The German Right from Conservatism to National Socialism Thomas Rohrämer
Volume 21
Environmental Organizations in Modern Germany: Hardy Survivors in the Twentieth Century and Beyond William T. Markham
Volume 22
Crime Stories: Criminalistic Fantasy and the Culture of Crisis in Weimar Germany Todd Herzog
Volume 23
Liberal Imperialism in Germany: Expansionism and Nationalism, 1848-1884 Matthew IP Fitzpatrick
Volume 24
Bringing Culture to the Masses: Control, Compromise and Participation in the GDR Esther von Richthofen
Volume 25
Banned in Berlin: Literary Censorship in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918 Gary D. Stark
Volume 26
After the ‘Socialist Spring’: Collectivisation and Economic Transformation in the GDR George Last
Volume 27
Learning Democracy: Education Reform in West Germany, 1945-1965 Brian M. Puaca
Volume 28
Weimar Radicals: Nazis and Communists between Authenticity and Performance Timothy S. Brown
Volume 29
The Political Economy of Germany under Chancellors Kohl and Schröder: Decline of the German Model? Jeremy Leaman
Volume 30
The Surplus Woman: Unmarried in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918 Catherine L. Dollard
THE SURPLUS WOMAN
Unmarried in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918
Catherine L. Dollard
Published in 2009 by
Berghahn Books
©2009, 2012 Catherine L. Dollard
First ebook edition published in 2011
First paperback edition published in 2012
All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission of the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dollard, Catherine Leota.
The surplus woman : unmarried in Imperial Germany, 1871/1918 / Catherine L. Dollard.—1st ed. p. cm.—(Monographs in German history ; v. 30)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-84545-480-7 (hbk.)—ISBN 978-0-85745-313-6 (pbk.)—ISBN 978-1-84545-952-9 (ebk.)
1. Women—Germany—History. I. Title.
HQ1623.D64 2009
306.81'53094309034—dc22 2009015697
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 978-1-84545-480-7 (hardback)
ISBN 978-0-85745-313-6 (paperback)
ISBN 978-1-78533-662-1 (open access ebook)