Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Nashim; a Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues
Angaben zur Quelle:
36 (2020) 86-116
Keywords:
Obstetrics History 20th century
;
Midwifery History 20th century
;
National socialism and medicine
;
Biopolitics History 20th century
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jewish women in the Holocaust
;
Poland History Occupation, 1939-1945
;
Litzmannstadt-Getto (Łódź, Poland)
Abstract:
The aim of Germanizing the western parts of Poland, which were annexed to the German Reich in 1939, shaped the planning of obstetric services. Occupation policies such as “racial segregation” determined healthcare policy and biopolitics as well as midwifery practice. This paper takes a closer look at the female-dominated sphere of pregnancy, birth and early parenthood as one of the key points of biopolitics and Germanization and as the sphere in which policies became crucial to women and their bodies. This will shed light on the gender-specific aspects of occupation and race policies in western Poland and their impact on everyday life for midwives. By highlighting the highly divergent and increasingly antagonistic experiences and perspectives of Jewish, German and Polish midwives within the local settings of the city of Łódź/Litzmannstadt and within occupied western Poland, I hope to contribute to an “integrated history” of the occupation.
DOI:
10.2979/nashim.36.1.06
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