Pt. 1. Women in the Weimar Republic. Beyond Kinder, Küche, Kirche : Weimar women in politics and work / Renate Bridenthal and Claudia Koonz -- Abortion and economic crisis : the 1931 campaign against Paragraph 218 / Atina Grossmann -- The Bremen morality scandal / Elisabeth Meyer-Renschhausen -- Helene Stöcker : left-wing intellectual and sex reformer / Amy Hackett -- Mother's day in the Weimar Republic / Karin Hausen -- "Professional" housewives : stepsisters of the women's movement / Renate Bridenthal -- Sisterhood under siege : feminism and anti-Semitism in Germany, 1904-1938 / Marion Kaplan. Pt. 2. Women in Nazi Germany. The competition for women's Lebensraum, 1928-1934 / Claudia Koonz -- The creation of a female assembly-line proletariat / Annemarie Tröger -- Racism and sexism in Nazi Germany : motherhood, compulsory sterilization, and the state / Gisela Bock -- Women and the Holocaust : the case of German and German-Jewish women / Sybil Milton -- The story of Ruth / as told to Sylvia Kramer by Ruth Nebel -- Comrade-woman-mother-resistance fighter / as told to Gerda Szepansky by Katharina Jacob.