JUDAIC 386 Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: Gestapo
7 Oct 2016
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Role reversals among jewish women and men, jewish women took on new roles as breadwinners, family protectors, and defenders of businesses or practices. a. i. These gender roles shifted because devastating economic, social, and emotional realities forced families to embrace strategies that they would never have entertained in ordinary times. a. ii. Many tales have been recorded of women who saved family members from the arbitrary demands of the state or from the. It was always assumed that the nazis would not disrupt gender norms which afforded women greater freedom. a. iii. Women often faced routine danger and dramatic situations which required bravery and luck. a. iv. But decisions regarding emigration seem to have been made by husbands. a. ii. The common prejudice that women were hysterical in the face of danger worked to everyone"s disadvantage. a. iii. Men"s role and status as breadwinners made them hesitant to a. iv. a. v. emigrate and gave them the authority to say no.
