Nazi ideology re-subjugated already emancipated German women through the mother-state bond

Evidence

German women failed in 1914 to establish a women’s national army, but they took an active part in the war. After the German defeat, they obtained the right to vote and participated in political life: Rosa Luxemburg fought next to Liebknecht in the Spartacus group and was assassinated in 1919. The majority of German women chose the party of order; several took seats in the Reichstag. It was thus upon emancipated women that Hitler imposed the new Napoleonic ideal: “Kinder, Küche, Kirche.” “Woman’s presence dishonors the Reichstag,” he declared. As Nazism was anti-Catholic and antibourgeois, he gave the mother a privileged place; protection granted to unmarried mothers and illegitimate children greatly freed woman from marriage; as in Sparta, she was more dependent on the state than on any individual, giving her both more and less autonomy than a bourgeois woman living under a capitalist regime. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 283

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly relevant to ‘On Sacrifice: The Real Kind, with Corpses’ — the Spartan analogy and the state’s claim on mothers’ reproductive bodies parallels sacral kingship and state-commandeered fertility, with the state (rather than a husband) as the possessing entity over women.
• XREF: The ‘more and less autonomy’ paradox echoes Beauvoir’s own later dialectic of immanence/transcendence — the state-mediated relation gives structural independence from individual men while deepening ontological dependence. — connects to: Nazi marriage loans rewarded reproduction to breed and control women — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 65

Broader Connections

• Nazi marriage loans rewarded reproduction to breed and control women #corroborates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 65